‘Extend a hand of friendship to a lake, and it will reciprocate the sentiment’
1 year ago

‘Extend a hand of friendship to a lake, and it will reciprocate the sentiment’

The Hindu  

The water levels in three lake in Thiruvottiyur — Ernavur, Kasikovilkuppam and Kathivakkam — have increased considerably. “It is a comfortable situation, one that would take care of water needs of the locality till the next monsoon,” says Kannan G., vice-president, Natural Resource Management, Hand in Hand India. Under project ‘PURE, Hand in Hand had undertaken considerable work in the last one year including checking inappropriate drainage patterns and sea water intrusion. “Residents living within a 750 metres radius around the lake did not experience any waterlogging,” says Kannan. Niranjan Patnaik, president of Kamaraj Nagar Welfare Association and an active volunteer, says in the 2015 Chennai Floods water had entered many homes around the lake.

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