Water cries

I congratulate Abdul Hannan for his illuminating piece. 'Tighten your water taps to fight the water crisis' published in your daily on Monday last (April 5). It graphically juxtaposes the fact that while the richest nation, America so jealously guards any wastage of water, we in Bangladesh, a rank poor nation do it with no qualms of conscience. What a bewildering irony! It is high time that the government enacts a water policy forthwith and puts it through urgently to prevent further wastage of this precious commodity--water. Perceptively, the brewing summer of discontent has much of its roots in water.