Indian Express 18.05.2010
1,060 roofs ready to harvest rains
Express News Service Tags : water Posted: Wed May 19 2010, 03:10 hrs
Mumbai: In the wake of Raj Thackeray’s recent visit to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation demanding strict implementation of rain water harvesting project in the city, the civic body has issued a list of buildings which already have the system and the buildings where the installation in under way.Official figures indicate that a total of 1,060 structures in the city have already installed rainwater harvesting system atop their roofs.
According to the date available, since the BMC guidelines began to be implemented, 1,060 structures have a RWH system. Out of this, the Island city alone has 639 structures and eastern suburbs have the remaining 421 structures, with figures not available for the Western suburbs yet.
Standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale said that Raj Thackeray should have checked the figures before instructing the civic body to ensure a strict compliance of existing RWH norms.
“The BMC has been ensuring the installation of RWH systems on every new construction in the city. The civic body has been doing this even before the State government came up with the recent guidelines on RWH systems.”
Last week, Thackeray along with several other partymen met Municipal Commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya to discuss the water crisis in the city.
Thackeray had stressed the importance of rain water harvesting and had said that it should be encouraged among the citizens. Later, Municipal Commissioner had said that 170 BMC structures have been identified for rain water harvesting.
