The Hindu 18.06.2013
Awareness programme on rainwater harvesting
Namakkal Municipality on Saturday conducted an awareness
programme for the members of women self-help groups (SHGs) on the
importance of implementing rainwater harvesting in houses to tackle
water crisis in the future. More than 250 women took part in the
programme that was organised at the municipal marriage hall on the
Thuraiyur Road in Namakkal Town.
Inaugurating the
programme, Municipal Chairman R. Karigalan said that the prevailing
drinking water shortage and depleting underground water table has left
no other option but to collect and make optimum use of the minimum
available rainwater.
He said that the municipal
council has planned to give prizes to persons who involve themselves
actively in implementing rainwater harvesting.
Municipal
Commissioner (In-charge) M. Kamalanathan said that a similar programme
was organised for the municipal councillors on Friday in which the
representatives participated without party difference. “We are preparing
a truck with rainwater harvesting models to suit different types of
houses. It will be flagged off in an awareness drive that would be held
next week and will create awareness in residential areas across the
Town”, he added.
According to the Commissioner
(In-charge), the awareness programmes would stress on the need to store
rainwater and recharge the ground water table – by setting up new
rainwater harvesting pits and carrying out repair and maintenance works
in the existing harvesting pits that were dug a few years ago and left
unattended.