Articles are appearing about master plan for the city of Bangalore. There is a need for citizen partnership in this huge plan for our city. As we have seen this year like previous years, city struggles with lack of water and when it rains the streets are flooded. Few years ago, people would have found the idea of flood in a city with no rivers or seas ridiculous. But not now. Now every city in India shivers when it rains. Why? Why is the much anticipated rain becomes a curse? Because of our craze for cement. Every inch of the roads and houses and courtyards are cemented and there is no place for the rain water to percolate. What can water do, except to flood. There was a talk about rain water harvesting being compulsory few years ago. Is the rules still there? Is it being implemented? Is it being implemented in large corporate buildings? Government buildings? If all the possible buildings harvest rain water, many of them become self sufficient. And the pavements. They ...