🚰💰 Tax Paid… Still Buying Water? A Reality Check from the Heart of the City!
Good Morning Hive Community Members 🌞
Warm greetings from Bharat 🇮🇳
As you all know, in my previous post I went a little off-topic and spoke about my health and fitness journey 💪. Usually, 99% of my posts revolve around development activities and contributions I make for the Hive ecosystem — open source tools, applications, updates, and improvements for our beloved Hive community.
But today, I am experimenting a little.
Yes, Hive.Blog is not just a developer logbook — it is a true decentralized social media platform built on blockchain. And maybe it's time I use it more like a social platform — to talk about real-life issues that affect all of us.
Because what’s the point of decentralization if we don’t speak the truth? 😉
🚛 The Photo Says It All
Look at the image above.
What do you see?
A water tanker.
Now here’s the irony…
This tanker is refilling water for a building that is literally just 100 meters away from the government water connection point. Yes. Just 100 meters.
Let that sink in.
💸 Taxes Paid. Services Missing.
No matter which country or state you live in, one thing is common — taxes.
Different names. Same concept.
We pay taxes expecting:
- ⚡ Electricity
- 💧 Water supply
- 🛣 Proper roads
- 🏥 Basic civic services
These are not luxury services. These are bare minimum essentials.
Now imagine living in the center of the city, not some remote village — and still having to depend on private water tankers for daily water supply.
Not 1 tanker.
Not 2.
But 3 to 4 tankers per day.
Calculate that for a month.
Now calculate the cost.
It becomes a massive financial burden on every family in that society.
🤯 The Bigger Twist
Now here’s where it becomes shocking.
Who owns the water tanker service?
👉 Politicians themselves.
And guess what?
One of them lives just 150 meters away from that very building.
Not far. Not in another area.
Right there.
Instead of solving the water supply issue for people living next to them, the system creates artificial scarcity — so residents are forced to buy water from private tankers.
Tell me honestly…
Isn’t this daylight robbery? 😐
😔 The Sad Reality
The most painful part?
Everyone has adjusted.
It has become “normal”.
People who try to raise their voice face pressure. Sometimes even threats.
And this is exactly why decentralized platforms like Hive matter.
On Hive:
- ❌ No one can delete your voice.
- ❌ No centralized authority can silence you.
- ✅ You can express freely.
- ✅ You can document reality permanently.
As someone who contributes technically to Hive through development work, I strongly believe that the real power of Hive is not just in apps and code — but in freedom of expression.
🌍 I Want to Hear From You
Is something similar happening in your city?
Maybe not water — maybe electricity, roads, taxes, or any other civic issue?
Share your stories.
Let’s use Hive not just as builders, but as responsible citizens.
Because blockchain is not just about tokens.
It’s about transparency. Accountability. Voice.
Thank you so much for reading ❤️
See you in the next post — whether it's about development contributions for Hive or another real-life story.
Bye bye 👋
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@sagarkothari88,Good morning from Warri, Delta State, Nigeria! 🇳🇬 Your post hits home hard,love how you're blending dev contributions with raw, real-life truths on Hive.
As a fellow Hive enthusiast deep in blockchain gaming (Splinterlands/Actifit) and content creation,I couldn't agree more:this platform's true superpower is that unerasable voice.No Big Tech overlords, just pure decentralization letting us call out the daylight robbery.
🙌You're spot on about taxes funding basics, like water, roads and power,yet delivering squat.
Here in Warri, it's a mirror image, but swap water for electricity and flooding. We pay through the nose for NEPA/PHC bills (even when there's no light!), expecting steady supply.
Reality? Blackouts for 10+ hours daily. Businesses grind to a halt,families cook on gas stoves that cost double and generators roar non-stop,fuel prices up 300% since last year.
Worse, the floods every rainy season turn major roads (like the East-West Road or Airport Road) into rivers. No drainage fixes despite billions in budgets. Who profits? Private gen-set sellers, fuel barons, and contractors linked to politicians. It's normalized too,people just manage with inverters or JCBs for driveways.
Voices raised? Met with police harassment or corrupt community leaders shutting it down.This is why Hive shines.
Keep experimenting, bro.Your dev work + these posts = Hive leveling up.Upvoted and resteemed! 💪🔥
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My country is the worst! I don't like talking about it, because it saddens my heart.
We pay heavy taxes, yet, no good road, water, electricity, or proper health care centres. Citizens provide water for themselves by digging borehole, or well(which is not even healthy for drinking) . Thereby, resolving to buying plastic bottle water or sachet, depending on one's financial capacity.
We pay for electricity that we don't use. Some areas only use 2-4 hours a day, some suffer for weeks or even months without electricity supply. The worst is, these politicians now privatize it, soley owned by them. Whether you used it or not, at the end of the month they bill the citizens heavily.
They travel outside the country to receive good medical care but refuse to fix that of the country for come man to benefit from.
Their children school abroad while our educational system suffer. Even when citizens pay through their noses, the money isn't used to at least pay the teachers and render quality service.
The list is endless, the more I talk about it the angrier I become, because it's sickening. Let me just stop here.
Our politicians do not have conscience.
Most likely due to the reckless expansion of AI datacenters that is consuming all the water supply.
The same is also happening to the southwest part of Johor where some of my family lives. Of course these politicians are in denial, they are clearly exporting water to Singapore where many resource hungry datacenters are located, at much higher prices than what locals are paying.
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