Dusty Streets

"I grew up in a village Zadeshwar, Di. Bharuch, Gujarat, India on a bank of river Narmada. Since about 1975 due to industrialization and increased prices and prosperiity... the dusty natural streets is now paved completely from side to side with concreate. Sure it made life in monsoon a bit less messy. However all the games that I used to play, e.g. marbals, tops, shooting mettal rod in damp earth, and many more simply has become a story now parents tell their kids without demonstration. TV had already contributed to this but paved streets has put a final blow. Now water runs straight to river and ocean without getting a chance to recharge underground resources due to more open land gone to build homes, commercial buildings, industries now rain water has less passages to go underground for recharge or flow to river easily... lot of modern areas gets flooded sooner than one would think even in normal rain."