Hot, hot, hot (Sabong News)
Author
Jullie Y. Daza
Date
MARCH 24 2022
Water, water, water! The heat is on.
Rain, rain, come this way and stay any day.
Only God can make a raindrop, but if man can mix two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen and produce water (H20), can he make an ocean? And even if God causes the rain to fall, can man push the clouds directly, deliberately over Angat dam to bring up its water level? The best he can do is cloud-seeding, though not always successfully. The forecast is hotter days ahead (after Tuesday’s 38 degrees at 11 a.m.).
Alas, no one among the promising national candidates with their wish lists has a plan to fill our buckets of dreams with enough water in the seasons to come, water to drink and feed our fish, farms and factories. In Somalia, reports Voice of America, the people are languishing through their longest drought, they have run out of clean drinking water, as a consequence of which their hospitals are overwhelmed with patients suffering from water(!)-borne diseases – cholera, diarrhea, typhoid.
Somalia is a small country, with maybe 20 percent of our population. The capital, Mogadishu, is a tiny dot on the map, that dot being on the edge of their country before it drops out into the Indian Ocean. To the north, it faces the Gulf of Aden. Similarly, our islands are surrounded by water and yet, and yet, the National Capital Region seems to get drier and thirstier every summer.
Save and conserve water. But water rates being cheaper than electricity, most households shrug off the warning; it’s an old story. Save water that comes out of the faucet in trickles? Safe, clean drinking water could soon become a luxury (like champagne). There are predictions that earth will run out of water before its oil wells dry up.
Man cannot create water no more than he can create a tree. What he can do is not to waste water. If that means fixing a leak – small drops accrue to a big bill from Manila Water or Maynilad – find a plumber if you can.
Where’s a handy plumber when you need one? A good plumber is as hard to find as a good husband (not all husbands are born plumbers).
