In a bid to conserve ground water and to avoid possible drought in the future, Kochi made two lakh rain water pits in the city.<\/p>\n
Rainwater pits was dug by various unions working under Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and the district committee of CPM as part of pre-monsoon preparations in Kochi.<\/p>\n
The event was aimed at increasing the public participation in conservation of water. Over 50,000 rainwater pits will be constructed by the groups under CITU.<\/p>\n
“We are encouraging the construction of rainwater pits in all compounds owner by members as well as others who are willing to participate in the initiative<\/em>,” said CPM district secretary P Rajeev to Times of India.<\/p>\n The program will help city to avoid severe water drought next summer and also helps to recharge decreasing ground water. It will replenish natural drinking water sources like ponds and wells.<\/p>\n However, many environmentalists are in the opinion that construction of rainwater pits rampantly will do more harm as large number of rain water pits constructed at a short time will result in higher chances of accidents if necessary precautionary measures are not taken while constructing them. They also said that it was better to reply on recharging well and constructing rainwater pits near wells if water conservation was the aim as it was a sustainable method of rainwater management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a bid to conserve ground water and to avoid possible drought in the future, Kochi made two lakh rain water pits in the city. Rainwater pits was dug by various unions working under Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and the district committee of CPM as part of pre-monsoon preparations in Kochi. The event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-27771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kochi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27773,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/27773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}