{"id":1972,"date":"2013-05-09T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcurocks.wordpress.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T06:12:56","slug":"water-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/water-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/url.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1973\" alt=\"Drop of water\" src=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/url.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs the summer hits us, newspaper headlines such as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2013-05-04\/hyderabad\/39025969_1_drinking-water-dams-osmansagar\">Hyderabad&#8217;s twin sagars left to dry and disappear<\/a>&#8221; have become all too common. The campus water situation is alarming, and it really needs everyone&#8217;s attention. I got a mail recently from a concerned student who had an earnest plea: \u00a0<strong>Please make our wardens and their supporting staff realize their duties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/dscn3671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1978\" alt=\"DSCN3671\" src=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/dscn3671.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/dscn3672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1977\" alt=\"DSCN3672\" src=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/dscn3672.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>K Hostel, for instance. Water fills the tank, and then overflows <strong>throughout the night<\/strong>, and here are pictures taken at various times to document the fact&#8230; As the student says, &#8220;You are intelligent enough to calculate the amount of water wasted.\u00a0Please increase your efforts to bring the university members from their research laboratories or offices to see our daily issues more closely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/save-water.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1980\" alt=\"save-water\" src=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/save-water.gif?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Wardens. Staff. Students&#8230;<\/strong> This is our problem, our campus, and it should be our common concern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Please act!\u00a0<\/strong>Don&#8217;t just watch a tap drip! Like the logo from a <a href=\"http:\/\/waterengnet.com\/2011\/top-10-ways-to-save-water\/\">conservation advocacy site<\/a> says, <strong>Every drop counts&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the summer hits us, newspaper headlines such as &#8220;Hyderabad&#8217;s twin sagars left to dry and disappear&#8221; have become all too common. The campus water situation is alarming, and it really needs everyone&#8217;s attention. I got a mail recently from a concerned student who had an earnest plea: \u00a0Please make our wardens and their supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,119,123],"tags":[156,157,293,295],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-ramblings","category-vc","tag-conservation","tag-conservation-advocacy","tag-wardens","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG6mN-vO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}