On 30th July meeting, we had Dr Malshe Retired Prof. from UICT ( former UDCT) as speaker. He spoke lucidly about water management, a hot topic these days and major concern for all of us today and generations of tomorrow.
He made very simple observation about the water management.
1. In future water in the form of rain will not reduce and in fact will increase due to greenhouse effect.
2. Just the Konkan region of maharashtra, gets so much rain that we can have more than 100,000 litre of water per person in maharastra and all the rivers in eastern side of of the ghats can have water throughout the year. Just that it is all goes to sea
3. We can store large qty of water underground and increase water table
He suggested some simple and very effective methods to do that
· Collect the rainwater from the roof and store it in tanks
· Use the rainwater from the roofs and try and fill bore wells and open wells.
· If we dig a 1 mt. dip and 50cm wide trench along the fence of buildings or bungalow, and redirect the rainwater from roof to it – it will help increase ground water level substantially - A very simple thing to implement and a very elegant and effective method indeed
4. In case of multi storied building – he suggested the collection tanks at the each of upper floor so as to avoid pumping of the water again. This will save lot of energy used in pumping
After this Rtn. Dr. Lucky Kasat made a beautiful presentation about the International convention on water management which is being organized by our district 3140 under the leadership of PDG Kumar Kewalramani in Hotel Grand Hyatt on 19th Oct 08. Our Rtn Nilesh Amritkar helped in this presentation
Rtn Pramod Ambekar
