The initiative aligns with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision and his call to “catch the rain where it falls, when it falls”, making water conservation into a people’s movement.
A month’s worth of rain in just five hours on Tuesday, combined with a high tide in river Hooghly during the heaviest rainfall period, resulted in widespread waterlogging across the city.
Small rivers have been getting depleted and sometimes simply vanishing in many parts of the country. This has aggravated the problem of floods as well as droughts, as people are denied access to their water in drought years and during floods, rain water which would have flowed into these rivers instead turns towards human habitations.
It is “dangerous” to see a mere three cm of rainfall inundate the city, India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Bengaluru chief…
