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LET US TAP THE RAIN
Where is the rain? You may ask. But are you ready to tap it when it falls?
On the eve of the monsoon, we must be
prepared to value the water. Are we prepared?
MYLAPORE TIMES is launching a simple, small project to promote
rain water harvesting (RWH). You are at the centre of it. A small effort now can make a big change.
THE CAMPAIGN
On the eve of the monsoon season, there is something valuable a
neighbourhood can do. Or must do. Be ready to tap rainwater.
It is important and critical. In times when water is scarce.
Buying water is simple. It costs. Tapping water is simpler.
This campaign is a collaboration between Rain Centre, the NGO
that promoters water harvesting and Mylapore Times, the neighbour
hood newspaper.
Its aim is to encourage Mylaporeans to tap rainwater. For start
ers, this campaign will focus on the Mandavelipakkam area in R. A.
Puram.
It will run on the ground and be covered in this weekly.
For about two months. With the hope that such efforts can work
positively.
RESOURCES
risen after rainwater was tapped.
The Rain Centre
is based in Mandav
elipakkam. Its team
has done some im -
pressive work on this
issue. And continues
to do so, quietly.
Its work in
private campuses as
well as public spaces
is yielding results.
Water levels have
Rain Centre's head, Sekhar Raghavan has many years of experi
ence in this field and it has been recognized. Sekar says he and his
team at Rain Centre are willing to guide residents who wish to set up
RWH systems in their houses/apartment campuses/institutes or those
who must 'service' the RWH system they set up some years ago.
The Rain Centre, 4, Third Trust Link Street, Mandavelipakkam.
Ph: 24616134. ( 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). 9677043869 ( 9 a.m. to 7p.m.).
HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE
If your campus does not have a RWH system in place it is time to
set it up. Imagine the gallons or water that will be wasted from the
terrace and the yard around.
If you and your neighbours have a good RWH system in place,
tapping the water when it rains will help raise the water level around
you.
Spending a few thousand rupees helps in the long run.
If you have a RWH, then check out its status. Rubble, waste and
plastic may have run into the wells and can spoil its efficacy. Your
system needs some attention. Get it done now. It does not cost much.
IDENTIFY COMMON SPACES TO TAP
When a Chennai Corporation engineer watched rainwater run down a busy Mylapore road and into the drains, he got to
work. A RWH system was set up on the roadside and a pipe now links it to a temple tank.
Imagine the status of that tank if it rains for a week. Are there streets/roads in Mandavelipakkam which get
flooded? Are there areas were rainwater runs off down the new drains?
Rain Centre can ask local Corporation teams to explore ways to tap this wasted water.
So the next time you take a walk around, keep this issue in mind. Share the info with Mylapore Times -
SHARE SUCCESS STORIES
A well known institution in Mylapore is surprised that the water level in its abandoned well has risen sharply. All because it allowed a corporate to sink 12 wells to tap the rain that fell on large, open spaces.
This is a good story that we will report. Tell us how RWH has helped people in your
apartment block. We want to write on it. Call the newspaper's Edit Desk at 24660269
( 11 am to 5 pm) on weekdays and let us know.
