” Thousands have lived without love but not even one without water”
~W.H.Auden
Members of Bharathi Theertha, Visakhapatnam chapter and the rotary club of Naperville have taken up steps to conserve water and for its better usage not only in our rural areas but also in the developed regions of the country. They have started in Visakhapatnam by conducting workshops on the subjects discussed above which was met with a lot of appreciation and attendance. The group also includes members of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) along with Commissioner Frank Avila and they traveled to the country just to show how improvements in local water quality in Chicago can make a huge difference to the people who handle water treatment in India.
The group mainly consisted of Dr. Prakasam Tata, retired assistant director of the MWRD’s Monitoring and Research Department and current executive director of the Center for Transformation of Waste Technology in Naperville. Dr. Tata also serves as president of the Bharathi Theertha’s Naperville chapter and vice president of the organization’s chapter in his hometown of Vizianagaram in the Andhra Pradesh State of India. Tata recruited Commissioner Avila, MWRD chairman of finance; along with Hitesh Shah, managing engineer of the John E. Egan Water Reclamation Plant in Schaumburg; Syama Pappu, MWRD electrical engineer at the Egan Plant; and Mohamedusman Baki, retired plant manager of the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant in Des Plaines, as volunteers.
The group not only conducted a workshop for students of the Andhra university in Visakhapatnam but also conducted a workshop for workers in water treatment plants teaching them new techniques and also giving them ideas to keep the water and surroundings around them clean. According to the members the workshops were a great success and they hope to conduct many more in the near future.
” Our body is 60% water so conserve water and save 60% of yourself ”