Rain water harvesting

Rain water harvesting is the good thing that we are doing to ourself and our children. We make water percolate into earth making water table to raise, you know we also eradicate stagnant water in this process, its not a joke, in our apartment (at Virugambakkam, kaliamman Koil Street) water will get logged during rains and takes days to get drained (literally evaporated and spilled out into gutters). This year one of the apartment owner has taken steps to construct water harvesting pit and connection to central drainage system - which made our lives happier even during the heavy rains.

Go through the attached new article released in The Hindu at 3rd page of 15th Nov, 2010 (courtesy - the Hindu)