Will there be something known as IIIrd World War in future or probably near future? If at all it happens then, what will be the reason for IIIrd World War? Well, sometime during my school days I remember one of teachers saying this- "Once in future there will IIIrd World War and the reason for that would be, WATER, YES DRINKING WATER!" Then I  was a little surprised and thought World War for WATER? How funny! But, now I ask myself, was that really funny? And I think more so after that Sunday evening that was yesterday March 16th 08. Me and my hubby had planned for outing and before that had some work to be finished. It was 7:00 PM. We happened to go to police station to submit some documents for renewal of passport. I was sitting in the car as my hubby went inside the station. It was quiet sometime now and he was stuck in the procedures. Me in car was listening to some good music.

After sometime I just peeped outside the window panes of car and had a look around the station only to find a group of people struggling for something. Me out of curiosity watched them keenly and now I was aware of the situation. I started making some assumptions and guesses. I thought, these people might get this opportunity once in a week or my be once in a fortnight, then thought, is it once in a month??? This is an opportunity to store water for there domestic requirements. These men,women and even some kids were juggling, struggling and pouncing upon each other to collect water. The tap was just in front of the compound wall of the police station, probably it belonged to the station to fulfill their water needs.

Soon two of them moved out of the group with pots filled with water, a little girl and am sure she was not more than 10 years old, dressed in sky blue skirt and a check shirt which must be her school uniform with two ponies tied with blue ribbon. There followed a little boy and he was not more than 8 years I guess. He was in a half pant and a simple shirt.

They placed the pots a few meters away from the crowd and the girl went back inside the crowd and disappeared for quiet sometime. I just changed the music and started  listening to FM. As soon as I turned I could see the the girl with another pot in the place were they had already kept two pots earlier. Then two of them moved from that place in exactly opposite directions and as I was observing both of them, I saw the girl jumping in a ditch which was probably some 80 meters away from the place I was sitting and it was quiet dark now, 7:20 PM and my husband had not yet returned. The boy came back towards the pots they had kept, with a cycle and soon the  girl rose up from the ditch in which she had jumped earlier, she then trying hard to lift the pot, placed it on the road and I was just able to see her face as if she is been taking some mud treatment and hence have buried herself inside the ground with her face spared. And suddenly she jumped out of the ditch, and I thought her treatment is finished! She lifted the pot and came to brother (I assumed it to be her brother) and now there were 4 pots filled with water, two kids below 10, a cycle, late evening almost dark and yes off course the not so good tar road to mention. They made a mechanism and hanged two pots near the carrier of the cycle at the back on either side of it(carrier) and the boy was trying hard to balance the cycle then the girl lifted the 3rd pot and placed on her hip bone holding it firmly in the place she then lifted 4th pot and placed it on the carrier trying to balance two pots with her two little hands and the boy was now struggling more to balance the cycle and I thought the condition of the boy and imagined somebody pouring more water on the already filled bucket only to spil it out.

Then adjusting themselfs with the distance between them, the boy started moving the cycle holding it and the girl holding a pot on her left hip bone with her left hand and another pot with her right hand which was placed on the carrier of the cycle started walking in a very restricted way trying to avoid those path holes and stones on the road as if they were demonstrating their gymnastics skills in a circus trying to balance, walking their way together on the rope holding some kind of fansy long bamboo sticks in either hands challenging each other about their capability and capacity and warning each other if they try to play pranks and be the cause of them loosing their balance causing a huge fall from heights of heaven only to start their life in a altogether new way. As I was observing them they slowly disappeared in the darkness keeping me wondering about their reach abouts to their destinations. Me saying to myself "Wow, what a concept to carry water, two kids, a cycle, four heavy pots and their way to their destination in the darkness on the road with holes and stones which must be looking like "hills and rocks on their way to heaven" for the kids. And I thought some one has truly said "Necessity is the mother of invention". But, what about man inventing the concept of WAR for the need of WATER???