The IMD’s prediction that the country is likely to receive more rains this monsoon than estimated is encouraging but the question is how far we are prepared to conserve all this rainwater (“IMD predicts more rain this monsoon”, June 7). Storing rainwater during the monsoon season is all the more important than saving it during summer and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that not a single drop is wasted. While governments should ensure desilting of tanks and other waterbodies periodically, households and individuals should practise water harvesting in their little ways which will vastly improve the water table.
Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,
Hyderabad
