Environmental Engineer Tarun Sebastian transformed Delhi's Hauz Khas Lake from sewage pond to bird & nature paradise using wetlands
- Not too long ago, Hauz Khas Lake in New Delhi looked more like a sewer choked with filth
- How did it transform into an ecosystem where migratory birds come?
- Why did Delhi govt include it in its City of Lakes project?
- How did natural wetlands help save the lake from pollution?
- The Delhi government has adopted Tarun’s model in its City of Lakes project
- In our series on Green Crusaders, meet Tarun Sebastian, saviour of the lake
What can you do to attract hundreds of migratory birds to a place where none would venture? Not just birds, even butterflies, dragonflies, insects, and humans! Quite a difficult proposition you might say.
Well, think again! By sheer imagination, application of basic environmental technology and tremendous hard work, one single person has managed to do it all and that too is in the cacophony of the national capital.