*When the speaker sees water she 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 bather luxuriously twice a day. *The speaker also would recall her childhood when she would walk miles 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 pot of water to extinguish the fire