Too many authorities, not enough management
Deccan ChronicleLakes in the city are handled by a plethora of civic bodies – BBMP, BDA and BWSSB. With poor coordination between these agencies, the water bodies receive step motherly treatment, which results in large scale pollution, a chronic issue, or outright disaster, as was the case with Hulimavu. Harish Bijoor, Brand Guru and vocal civic activist, says that a single authority must be vested with authority to maintain the city’s fast-vanishing lakes and that there should be joint ownership between this agency and the people who actually live around them. The priority of the board should be to protect, regulate, restore and revive ‘local water security’, instead of the current approach of importing water from rivers that are far away, Anirudhan says. Lakes should not be be looked at in isolation, this is what is killing them.” A top BBMP official agreed that the civic authority has too much on its hands already and that a single, integrated authority for water resources could be a good solution.
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