People asked to take up rainwater harvesting in monsoon

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MAY 6. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has appealed to the people to take up rainwater harvesting during the coming monsoon for augmenting the groundwater resources.

As part of the publicity campaign on the programme, the rainwater harvesting cell of the board has urged the citizens to save rainwater, of which 90 per cent goes waste, by making the rooftop as an ideal place to collect water. The collected water could be diverted to the soil for recharging the groundwater. It could also be diverted to dried up wells, trenches or to special recharge pits.

The board officials explained that the groundwater resources in the City were getting depleted and also polluted. The indiscriminate and unprecedented construction activity has resulted in the decrease of water recharge.

People interested in going in for recharge pits or trenches to save rainwater could contact the cell (tel 6669000, 6669001, 6669002 (ext 395), or the Groundwater department (tel 3221672/731, 3222671 (ext.736), Builders' Forum (tel 7617296).

On its own the HMWSSB is implementing the rainwater harvesting programme in association with the State Groundwater department, National Remote Sensing Agency, AP State Remote Sensing Application Centre, NGRI, Builders' Forum and Central Groundwater Board (southern region).

As part of the Meeru-Neeru, the Hyderabad district administration had organised programmes in each of the 13 Assembly constituencies in the City on May 1 with the purpose of popularising the concept of rainwater harvesting.

Meanwhile, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad has taken up a drive to deepen the various tanks/kuntas/water bodies in the Twin Cities and its outskirts, also under the Neeru-Meeru programme, for enhancing their storage capacity.

According to the MCH officials, the Urban Forestry division has taken over the Devunikunta, Jamalikunta, Kotha Cheruvu, Shikarikunta, Tummalakunta, Vattikunta and Yerrakunta (Shaikpet village). The Town Planning wing of the corporation has taken over Bathurkunta, Gurram Cheruvu and Salkam Cheruvu. There are 28 water bodies in the Twin Cities and outskirts.

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