The Times of India      22.03.2017

Rainwater harvesting info centre to be set up in Madurai

Padmini Sivarajah | TNN | Mar 22, 2017, 03.22 PM IST

 Rainwater harvesting

MADURAI: The Madurai Corporation will establish a rainwater harvesting information centre in coordination with Rainstock, an organisation that is into rainwater harvesting.

This was announced at a World Water Day event organised by the Madurai Corporation, Young Indians of CII and many other organisations here on Wednesday.

Corporation commissioner Sandeep Nanduri said Madurai was facing the worst crisis in the last 142 hours due to failure of monsoons and that conservation of water and rainwater harvesting were crucial at this juncture.

He said it was time all buildings renovated their rainwater harvesting structures that had been built as part of the Tamil Nadu government's order ten years ago.

He said the corporation would intensify activities to create awareness on conserving and saving water. The rainwater information centre would help the public gain the technical details.