Rainwater
While realty is growing in Kerala, especially in cities like Kochi, drinking water supply in flats have remained irregular for months. Occupants of newly-built flats in Kalamassery, Thrikkakara, and Kakkanad are facing water shortage forcing them to buy water sold through tanker Lorries. Since they cannot get access to water supply, flat dwellers have to [...] Continue Reading »
To check the depleting groundwater level, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has come up with a plan to constitute a special committee. The committee is to be headed by two superintending engineers (SEs) who will visit houses in Gurgaon to check defunct water harvesting pits. As per norms, to obtain a completion certificate from [...] Continue Reading »
At a time when Mumbaikars are suffering from water cuts due to deficient rainfall, cloud seeding is the means the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking forward to. The BMC has decided to rope in Israel’s national water company, Mekorot for this purpose. The plan is to carry out cloud seeding operations in the areas [...] Continue Reading »
A resolution to make rainwater harvesting system mandatory for all new buildings and existing government owned buildings in the city has been approved by the standing committee. The committee also approved the heritage walk proposal. All new buildings in the city must have rainwater harvesting and old buildings owned by the government and civic body [...] Continue Reading »
While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has been forwarding many innovative ideas to solve the water crisis like desalination, cloud seeding and water recycling, none of these plans have been materialized. Under these circumstances, few housing societies have helped themselves through rainwater harvesting to solve the problem. The Raheja Vihar Rainbow society in Powai and Avanti [...] Continue Reading »
Areas around DLF-II, Bristol Chowk, Sikanderpur, Sector 15, Sector 17, Golf Course Road, Old and New Railway Road, Mahavir Chowk, a few colonies of old Gurgaon and the service lanes on the expressway also witnessed heavy waterlogging along with most of the condominiums in Sushant Lok I Block A, DLF – II and Jacaranda Marg. [...] Continue Reading »
