Lakes

We are very careless about our lakes. Bangalore had a lot of water bodies before but they are depleting at a fast pace. Recently in a Prajavani Report a Kannada daily a lake in Kengeri Satellite Town was closed on instructions from the Local MLA in the year 2004. The MLA s have become local Zamindars or Palegars terrorising people with a small band of people, and always having boys around them for protection. Poor guys they cannot walk around alone.

With these actions today Bangalore is facing a severe water shortage not allowing the earth to recharge water. Thereby causing damage to the eco system. It is unfortunate that all the lakes are converted into stadiums or bus stands. No imaginative planning is done to save the lakes. Why should the lakes be converted into sites if they are near the city why sites cannot be developed in some other place. With the metro coming and an excellent bus service we have people can move without disturbing the envirionment. Our leaders are full praise of Foreign countries but here, for their expenses to fund their travel they are prepared to convert their own backyard into a concrete jungle with slums and garbage heaps which they encourage so that the lake dies a slow death. They block the water flow by constructing buildings at these sites.

Long live corrupt politicians and let civilisation die without water this seems the motto of we the citizens of Bangalore. We have got a Government we deserve so we get such shabby treatement. I invite readers to read this and come out with suggestions to tackle this problem