Watering and Maintenance of Native Tree Saplings

PED TO LAGAYA... #PaaniDiyaKya?

No. of Volunteers = 12

Saplings watered = 94

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

- Craig Venter

The Delhiites took a breath of cleaner air recently without any worriess of respiratory and lung-related ailments as the city received its first rain spell of the season. With this spell was experienced a drop in temperature as well the AQI. The air quality had improved to satisfactory levels but the brief respite for from the toxic air in the last few days ended today as the overall air quality in the NCR again plunged into ‘poor’ category. It is about time we realize that we are not doing much to fix the problem we have created for ourselves.

Our volunteers are doing their bit every weekend. And this time little kids also joined us in our weekly ritual of watering and maintenance of our saplings in Hauz Khas and Sangam Vihar. Though the rain gods have blessed our saplings at these places, these are all babies and we need to take care of them extremely well until they adapt to their new homes, especially Sangam Vihar. We know that plants respond to extra attention and there we were – in the parks along with our watering cans. To let out a fact, these cans are all used bottles and plastic cans - our bit of reuse. Handling cans and pouring water to their green little friends were two little girls, who joined us at our Hauz Khas watering drive.

We urge everyone to join us in our drives. It won’t cost a thing, instead this would only be a reward in both short and long terms. In short terms a meeting with these plants will calm your senses and in the long run they will protect you from the growing menace of air pollution.

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