Environment and delicate ecosystems are often damaged under the pressure of capitalism and the unending demands of development. However, water, in particular, is deeply linked with people's lives, and it depends on profound human sympathy for survival. Water bodies are often destroyed when profit-driven markets take control over nature. When water dies, the life world of people is also threatened. Once bountiful nature turns hostile and unpredictable. Ecocentric literature generally mobilizes a strong rhetoric of resistance against the gradual destruction of delicate ecosystems, reminding people Barry Commoner’s law that everything is connected to everything else. This paper examines Akkineni Kutumbarao’s Softly Dies a Lake, an elegy to Kolleru Lake, one of India’s largest fresh water lakes, which was also the home for many species of aquatic lives and birds. This paper analyses the perspective, rhetoric and emotions of the narrator Seenu, who has seen the lake changing for the worse from his childhood. This paper also evaluates the significance of the water body’s memories and history in asserting the significance of a complex ecosystem.