The summers have just arrived and already India has one of its states, Tamil Nadu suffering through the hardest drought ever, the biggest in the past 140 years. Clearly, the state is doing everything in its power to not let even a drop of water go down the drain just like that. And with everything possible, we mean everything, like literally.

Tamil Nadu’s Co-operatives Minister Sellur K Raju came up with a brand new way to save water by making sure it doesn’t evaporate. And he planned to put into implementation his brilliant idea and took a large group of journalists to Vaigai dam in Madurai, on Friday.

The best part is, he kept his final plan a surprise until he reached the venue. The plan was to cover the entire dam, yes, entire dam with thermocol sheets. And we are not kidding.

According to him, this method of reducing evaporation has been used by many foreign countries and private water bodies. We are still trying to google that!

However, it appears that the dam was really not very happy with thermocol as the high-velocity wind tore apart the thermocol sheets attached with normal tape, and it all ended up really bad.

Even before the workers could actually start putting this to work, the sheets were washed ashore, torn apart, leaving the water all dirty.

The minister, obviously, embarrassed, tried to put them at their place himself but we guess the dam was really not on the minister’s side. Perhaps, a little bit of ‘Fluid Mechanics’ could have helped the minister during his graduation, if he did go for one.

And guess what? The minister’s 10 Lakh project or so called ‘experiment’ of saving water has actually gone down the drain, leaving the dam all polluted and dirty. And here we are wondering, where do they get these ideas from?

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(h/t: India Times)

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