Hyderabad: Rainwater harvesting is really in the pits
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: It seems that neither the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, nor the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, have learnt any lesson from the many water crises that have hit the city. This apart, the Water Board has stated that it has constructed about 9,000 RWH pits since 2014 and restored 8,000 harvesting pits in May 2019 alone. If the rainwater harvesting pits had been constructed according to norms in the thousands of buildings that were accorded permission in the past five years, the groundwater levels would have improved, sources said. When asked about rainwater harvesting, a senior town planning official said that it was the responsibility of the citizens to construct the pits and maintain them. He said officials would meet soon to set up a mechanism to monitor rainwater harvesting pits and make builders accountable.
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