{"id":369,"date":"2008-06-12T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-06-12T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:30:58","slug":"is-this-how-all-of-us-will-get-water-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/is-this-how-all-of-us-will-get-water-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this how all of us will get water soon ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My assistant went out and shot a little video in Colaba, in Mumbai. There’s no water in the taps in this area. It is served by Water Tankers, that come once a day if you are very lucky, and you queue up for hours to get water. A few burly guys are pushing and pulling people, bossing them around – (and they have a kind of a barricade for the tanker that is carrying water) – I’m not sure who those guys are. They certainly don’t look like government employees to me. They look like local goons.
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\nWhat’s interesting is this is not a slum of Mumbai. This video was shot right in the heart of Cloaba which is where the Taj Mahal Hotel is, one of the ten best hotels in the world.<\/p>\n


\nIt’s where the elite of Mumbai live, and it is next to the financial center of Mumbai. It is where one of Mumbai’s prime shopping area is. The people that live in this area service the whole of Colaba. They are the people that run the lifts, the chowkidar’s, the drivers, the people that work in the shops, I am sure many the waiters in the Taj Hotels too. They deliver your food, they work in the restaurants. They are the watchmen, the cleaners and the people who wash your clothes. They are the people are the oil in the machinery that make sure you can live in the city of Mumba This is also in an area where around the corner, there’s enough water running freely in the taps. You can stand in the shower for hours, or you can go for a long swim in the beautiful swimming pool in the Taj Mahal Hotel. Just a stones throw from where this video was shot.
\nThat’s the problem? there is water for the people who are the opinion makers and the decision makers of the city ?water still comes to their tap. They don’t have to stand in line for water. Wonder when they will look outside their windows into the back streets ? In their own backyard ? And start to worry about what the real problem in the world is today.
\nAnd realize that people that wait in line for the water pay much much more for the meagre amounts of water they can get. Which is why I do not buy what the economists are saying now – that the water problem can be solved by getting people to pay a fair price for it – what is ‘a fair price’ in this situation ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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