Borewells

My neighbour is planning to drill a borewell in her plot.

It reminded me of my college project. Myself, Muralidharan (right now in Shoba Developers) and Shivaraman (in ahmendabad) did the project "Ground Water Potential assessment using GIS and Remotesensing" under the guidance of Dr. George Bakose. In lay mans terms, that is figuring out the ground water level using Insate satellite images and GIS software. It tooks us several months to complete it but most of them accepted that it was worth the wait.

But guess what my neighbour did? They got hold of some guy for predicting the optimal spot to drill the bore. He carried the Y - stick btn the two faces of his palms. As he moved around, the Y stick "rotated" at some particular spot. And they fixed that spot for drilling the bore. All they took was 15 mins and Rs.100. In hindsight may be I should have hired these guys to help me out with my project.

- Dheepak Ra