Udupi, May 14: With a major water crisis looming Udupi district, special prayers were offered at temples, a mosque and a church seeking rain.
The water level at Baje Dam across the Swarna, which provides drinking water to Udupi city, was down to 2.15 metres on Friday. This, despite the fact that the city had received brief spells of rainfall on May 11 and 12.
Municipal councillors and officials, led by MLA Pramod Madhwaraj, offered prayers to propitiate the rain god. The team first visited the Jamia Masjid. The prayers were offered by Maulana Rashid Ahmed Nadvi, Khatib, at the mosque. “There should be rain and prosperity throughout the country,” he said.
After the mosque, the team visited the Chandramouleshwara Temple, Ananteshwara Temple and Krishna Mutt/Temple. Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt, who joined the team in their prayers, said that it should rain not just in Udupi city but for the entire State and parts of the country, which were facing drought.
The team then went to the Mother of Sorrows Church to offer prayers. Most Rev. Dr. Gerald Isaac Lobo, Bishop of Udupi Catholic Diocese, said that there could be no life without water. It was not just human beings, even animals suffered without water. “God is most merciful. Let God bless the country with plentiful rain,” he said.
Later speaking to presspersons, Mr. Madhwaraj said that there had been no scarcity of drinking water in the last three years. But if water in the Baje Dam receded from the present level, the city would suffer from water scarcity.
“Hence, we decided to pray at a mosque, a temple and a church and pray to god seeking rain in the catchment area. Providing rain is all in the hands of god. Elected representatives cannot do much about it, except pray,” he said.
Meenakshi Bannanje, president of the Udupi City Municipal Council, and Sandhya Kumari, vice-president, were present.
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Scientists have studied cloud types and have realized that RAIN clouds are formed and shaped acc to definite system and certain steps connected with certain types of wind & clouds.
One kind of rain cloud is the cumulonimbus cloud. Meteorologists have studied how cumulonimbus clouds are formed and they produce RAIN, hail and lighting.
Cumulonimbus clouds begin to form when wind pushes some small pieces of clouds to an area where these clouds converge.
Stacking : When the small clouds joins together, updrafts within the larger cloud increase. The updrafts near the center of the clouds are stronger than those near the edges. These updrafts cause the cloud body to grow vertically, so the cloud is stacked up. This vertical growth causes the cloud body to stretch into cooler regions of the atmosphere, where drops of water and hail formulate and begins to grow larger and larger. When these drops of water and hail become too heavy for the updrafts to support them. they begin to fall the cloud as rain, hail, etc.
*GOD has said in the QURAN : Have you not seen how GOD makes the CLOUDS move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stake, and then YOU see the rain come out of it - QURAN 24:43*
Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details of cloud formation, structure and function by using advanced equipments like Planes, satellites, computers, balloons and other.
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