It looks like someone didn’t have Apple care!
While some of us just have to take the L and depart with our phones if we were to drop it in open water, one man refused to do so and went to extreme measures!
A government official from India has been suspended after he drained an entire reservoir to get back his phone that he had reportedly lost while taking a selfie.
According to the BBC, more than 440,000 gallons of water was removed from the Paralkot reservoir. The grueling task took four days. The amount of water that had to be pumped out equated to over 1500 acres of farmland!
The official identified as Rajesh Vishwas, is a local food inspector and claimed there was sensitive government information on the phone and that it needed to be retrieved.
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The inspector claimed that an official had given him permission to drain “some water into a nearby canal.” He even claimed it “would in fact benefit the farmers who would have more water”.
Indian official drained a reservoir to get his smartphone
Food inspector Rajesh Vishwas dropped his smartphone into the water when he tried to take selfies at a picnic with friends.
At first, several residents of a nearby village dived into the water at the official’s request,… pic.twitter.com/QDGQZ4b5lS
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 28, 2023
Vishwas was suspended after a water official became aware of the incident following numerous complaints.
“He has been suspended until an inquiry. Water is an essential resource and it cannot be wasted like this,” Priyanka Shukla, a Kanker district official, said to The National newspaper.
Ironically, once the phone was retrieved it would not start because of water damage.
In #Chhattisgarh, an officer’s I-phone fell into a dam reservoir. Two pumps of 30 horsepower, ran 24 hrs, and pumped out-hold your breath- 21 lakh litres of #water, this water could have irrigated 1,500 acres of land, & this is when “there is severe shortage of water i the area ! pic.twitter.com/vBSol7EafS
— Ramandeep Singh Mann (@ramanmann1974) May 26, 2023
Many Indian politicians were outraged by the actions and waste of resources and water as India is currently going through a drought with major scarcity in resources of water. which has led to crop failure, power outages and fires amidst the scorching temperatures.
“When people are depending upon tankers for water facility in scorching summers, the officer has drained 41 lakh litres which could have been used for irrigation purpose for 1,500 acres of land,” tweeted the BJP party’s national vice-president.