I learnt the importance of water, the hard way.
I spent my childhood in Alwar, a city on the eastern border of Rajasthan.
In my early years there, water was always scarce.
The daily water supply was for just 1 to 2 hours in the morning and about half an hour in the evening, if at all.
During peak summers, the evening supply was discontinued and the morning one reduced to only 1 hour.
And then there were days when the municipality did not supply water at all. We used to wait for hours, staring the tap connected to the local pipeline, with not a drop of water in sight.