Dirt At The Source

The other day when I was wandering around the Sundarijal Water Reservoir, I was shocked to see the picnic-goers throwing the left-over food and washing their utensils in the Bagmati River water just above the reservoir. All the food they threw would be collected at the reservoir from which the drinking water is supplied to Kathmandu. It means the Kathmanduites have to use the jutho (contaminated) water every day. More surprising was that the picnic-goers themselves were, perhaps the college students from Kathmandu. Yet they were throwing the food in the water as if they had not known that they drink the same water in home. It was indeed a sheer negligence of the picnic-goers to dirty the water in such a manner. Also there was no one to stop them from doing so. Cannot the Water Supply Corporation station its personnel around the area so that no picnic-goers will dirty the water at the source?

Madhav Thapa
New Baneshwore, Kathmandu