An Exemplary Green Enclave!
Setting an example for many other RWAs to follow, residents of the Gautami Enclave in Kondapur have been breathing life into the community through Project Neer for eight years now, reports The Hindu newspaper. That the 90 plus rainwater harvesting pits, the 100 plus foot injection wells, and speed breakers in the colony which double up as water channels, are indeed doing what they are intended to do is evident from the 5000 plus burgeoning saplings in the colony of 70 buildings. On a good rainy day, the Project Neer system helps save upwards …
Hyderabad to be zero water table city by 2020, Groundwater use beats recharge by 140-600%
Hyderabadis are sucking dry Mother Earth faster than the Rain Gods are able to quench her thirst. So much so, they are using up water at a rate that is 600% to 140% of the annual recharge rate of the water table in the city, the Hindu newspaper reported quoting government scientists. “The groundwater table in Hyderabad and Telangana is going down rapidly as the extraction rate is high. On an average, Hyderabad is drawing 340% of the annual recharge volume,” the newspaper quoted Pandith Madhnure, Director of the Telangana Groundwater Department…
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