sadhguru jaggi vasudev please dont bowl a googly kl rahul i am not a bowler so dont worry sadhguru jaggi vasudev oh right the balls that i miss youll anyway catch referring to rahul as a wicketkeeper this was how the conversation opened between indian cricketer kl rahul and sadhguru jaggi vasudev as they spoke about the latters latest initiative cauvery calling life happiness and more the conversation which was held for a select bunch on sunday evening had some friendly banter too here are excerpts from the conversation rahul i was in the uk for two months and was unaware of the water crisis here when i came home my sister told me to use only a bucket of water in the shower in fact so many are of unaware of the situation can you throw light on what has happened and what we can dosadhguru there is no one agency force or person to blame fundamentally it is ignorance people think that rivers wells or lakes are sources of water in a tropical country like ours they arent they are only destinations for water there is just one source of water for us which is the monsoon rain the ability to hold all the water through the monsoon will determine how many days a river flows if we hold it it will flow 365 days a year we cannot hold water through dams and other such artificial means the only way we can hold it is with vegetation through agroforestry weve got 18 trees released from the government that can be cut for agroforestry indian law forbids people from cutting trees even in their own compoundsfarms especially if they want to sell it for timber these are laws from the british era the law also states that you only own the top eight feet of soil most people do not know this the water in your well belongs to the government today tamil nadu is exercising this right i am pushing for a law where anything that exists in the land belongs to the owner rahul why did you choose cauvery as your first project why would someone in north india want to contribute to this people tend to think that what doesnt affect them wont bother them sadhguru we have to start somewhere and because we start from kanyakumari we are beginning with the cauvery from the south the river flows only through two states most rivers flow through fourfive states and getting that many states to participate in an activity like this is a much more complex affair also with these two states there is a background of water distress i foresaw this distress almost eight years ago and because of the distress in chennai and the problems that bengaluru is afraid to face i think it will be a successful project here than anywhere else you must understand that water distress is not new if you have seen old movies you see womenfolk carrying