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The Selfless Movement Improving Life Everywhere (SMILE), a voluntary organisation founded by C N Paramasivan, son of late film director A P Nagarajan, is conducting a Save Water Awareness Walk in Chennai on Sunday, March 14, to create awareness on the need to conserve and save water in the city.

Over 1,000 SMILE volunteers are expected to take part in the walk which will begin at Gandhi Mandapam, Adyar, and end at Adyar bus terminus, a distance of roughly 1.6 km, Paramasivan said.

The organisation does not collect or donate money but contributes to various social causes through physical, manual work, like cleaning of temples and the Cooum in Chennai, organising donation of clothes to the poor and providing assistance to patients of the Cancer Institute and so on, he said.

Over 5,000 toilets in Tirumala were cleaned and suitable gadgets installed recently with the assistance of Parryware in a campaign to save five crore litres of water in a year, Paramasivan said.

The organisation has grown in strength in the last couple of years, with over 6,000 persons joining the group as volunteers, he said, adding that the Save Water campaign would be held till December-end.

Pointing out that water was an extremely scarce resource in Chennai, Paramasivan said there was need to inculcate water-conservation practices in the city like not wasting water during brushing of teeth, shaving, washing clothes and vessels and so on.

The volunteers, who had initially taken up cleaning of temples, are now associated with various charitable work in Chennai and around. Blood donation and eye camps are periodically organised. The volunteers are committed to sparing one Sunday in a month to work for social causes, Paramasivan said.

RR