Quarries can help solve water scarcity

 
Amid mounting public concern over the series of accidental deaths at abandoned granite quarries across the State, the Kozhikode based Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) has come up with a proposal for the scientific development of such sites to resolve water scarcity in parched areas. Dozens of people have lost their lives in the abandoned quarries, forcing the Government to spend huge sums on fencing the sites. Last month, two school children were drowned in a flooded quarry at Kallumala, near P.T.P.Nagar, in Thiruvananthapuram. A recent study conducted by Kamalam Joseph and T.Valsan of the CWRDM recommended the steps to tap the quarries for a variety of uses by the local people.

(The Hindu, 17th March , 2007)