COIMBATORE: As many as 133 rain water harvesting structures have come up on open spaces and along roads in the city, out of the 215 planned under a Rs.1-crore project promoted by Central Ground Water Board of the Union Ministry of Water Resources. Siruthuli, a public initiative to conserve water resources, has teamed up with the district administration in implementing the rain water harvesting programme to raise the ground water level in the city. District Collector P. Umanath is the chairman of the District-level Technical Committee. The 150 structures put up already by Siruthuli in the city have served as a model for the ongoing project. The marked improvement in the ground water level following the earlier project led to the Board asking Siruthuli to partner the district administration in replicating the model across the city.
“So far, we have put up 126 harvesting structures at open spaces and seven along roads,” Siruthuli Managing Trustee Vanitha Mohan told presspersons on Wednesday. The Collector was reviewing the project and works were on to meet the March 31 deadline for the completion of all the 215 structures, Ms. Mohan said. Coimbatore city was actually in need of 600 rain water harvesting structures at locations identified as rain water stagnation points. The Board had promised assistance in establishing more structures. It had also called upon Siruthuli to implement a similar project in Chennai.
Source: The Hindu, Dated: 19.02.2010
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