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Sharing distress

Sir, — Your Editorial, `The waters of discord' (Aug. 31): ``Discord'' could be an attribution to describe an artificial political relationship. But the term being used in the context of a natural resource like water is unfortunate. In history, wars have been waged to acquire and annex land and establish a territory. Now it seems to be the turn of water. But the problem with water is that it cannot be confined to a notional boundary. The ``distress'' in this regard is caused not by the water or nature itself, but by the wrongful and unscientific use of it. So caused distress is aggravated further by politico-administrative artificial boundaries and considerations. Mutually acceptable distress-sharing formula, among different `States', is a misnomer. Two elements that need to be neutralised, optimised and complemented with each other, are land and water. If this is achieved the share of distress would ungrudgingly be proportionate among the each and every plot holder in the entire command area of the basin.

R.K. Divakara,

Bangalore

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