Free Power – No Water
Recently I read an article in a leading newspaper on how free power is leading to no water.
Few State Government’s in India are supplying free or very cheap electricity to farmers.
The farmers in turn switch their generators in their fields that take out water from the underground.
Thinking that it would be the last day on earth, they keep on using this to get more and more water from the underground into their fields.
This excessive usage of water is leading to depletion of Underground water. Now there are few places were the entire water channel is no more to be found, causing more problems to the population.
Well this lead us to conclude that excess of anything is bad. And we should use our natural resources efficiently.
Another example of misuse of privilege and technology… 😉