Floods in Anekal taluk: Residents, farmers blame NGO for ‘shoddy’ lake work
The HinduSubramani, a farmer from Anekal taluk, says he has been in a difficult situation lately. Water from outside reached my sump, I fell sick and we had to throw out 16,000 litres of water,” says Kannan who feels the ideal solution to save the lake is to hold the polluting industries accountable and prevent them from discharging effluents instead of cordoning off the lake from its catchment area. “The tall bunds around the lake have disrupted the flow of the water through the natural slope of the land into the lakes. “Effluents from industries used to come into the lake through the inlets turning it into a ‘lifeless septic tank’ and polluting the ground water.” “With the ₹85 lakhs I received from Biocon I dewatered and desilted the lakes and removed about 4-5 feet of slurry. The first and second inlets were converted into lagoons with floating plant islands so that water would come in slowly, silt will be trapped naturally and thin water will reach the outlet.” According to him the idea was to convert 15% of the lake area into such grey water wetlands and the remaining 85% of the lake was to receive rainwater from the sky.
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