HYDERABAD: With water levels in the city receding considerably during the
summer
, an awareness
campaign has been launched in the city to emphasise the need to have
rainwater harvesting
pits. The main aim of the campaign is to encourage rainwater harvesting to increase groundwater level.
“Decreasing groundwater level has become a major worry. The city has turned into a concrete jungle, rainwater has hardly found a place in the scheme of things,” said Ilayas Shamshi, chairman, Team NGOs India which is organising the event. Due to the absence of proper rain water harvesting pits, rain water is drained out into canals and drains. “If there are proper pits, the groundwater level will stock up and the present water crisis will come to an end,’’ added Shamshi.
Borewells in several areas have gone dry. Shamshi said that taking up rainwater harvesting will solve such problems and will also help replnish the soil. “We came up with the idea to launch a campaign for rain harvesting pits across the city with a slogan ‘Recharge Hyderabad’ during this season,” he said.
Rain harvesting pits are especially useful for residents during the summer months. with most borewells drying up. “At the moment, borewells are being dug up up to 400 to 500 feet in many areas which is resulting in reduction of groundwater levels. With vanishing trees and cement roads causing more problems, the
NGO
is asking people to give recharge pits a thought,” said Fareeduddin, the campaign’s technical director .