When the speaker sees water she would remember how people in her Wada would thirst all day for a glass of water. Secondly, when she sees water she is also reminded of how they would eagerly welcome their weekly bath days as if it was a wondrous festival and also remember how the entire village bathed luxuriously twice a day. The speaker also would recall her childhood when she would walk miles on end to go to the big canal and carry back heavy pots with the muscles and veins on her neck straining and bursting. Finally, the sight of water would also make her recall how thatched roofs in Malapalle were burnt to ashes for want of a of water to douse the *.
