Monika Lind Melander my companion on the Indian trip is also a nurse, and she was caring for the children´s health and nutrition.
Correction
Abhishek is the correct spelling of the name of the member of the socialworker- staff
NewsI read now in the book Dying wisdom that the estimated population of the town Jaisalmer was 30.000 in 1989-90 . The watersupply,around 0.75 milj. gallons per day, does not come from the Indira Gandhi Canal, but from ground water only. The source of water come from a village, Dabla about 12 km south of Jais. There are eight tubewells in Dabla supplying water to Jaisalmer. This water is pumped up to the top of the Fort- hill and other hills and stored in large watertanks. From there water is supplied to the whole city.
Monika and I noticed that this give a feeling to the inhabitants of the town that water is an endless gift from the gods.As people who have a house with watertaps don´t need to pay for their water they are very careless in use of water. So we could see how water was flooding and flushing from different leaking connections.
Those who have no house with watertap, have to buy their water from watersellers. So in fact it´s the poorest that suffer from this "generous" system.They must buy water liter by liter. And the groundwater is not endless.Should be used with care. And wisdom.So for the future this is not a reliable way to solve the water challenge.
To be continued...
a rainy sunday in January in Sweden...
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