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.
