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Water conservation drive at schools
The agency has planned to construct at least one percolation pit in each school to harvest rain water. The programme launched during previous academic year is also being continued in the current academic year aiming to cover around 4000 primary, upper primary and high schools.
​Warangal: Blending education with water conservation activities the District Water Management Agency (DWMA) has embarked on constructing percolation pits on the premises of government schools in Warangal district in a big way.
The agency has planned to construct at least one percolation pit in each school to harvest rain water. The programme launched during previous academic year is also being continued in the current academic year aiming to cover around 4000 primary, upper primary and high schools.
The initiative has multiple benefits. It serves both to educate and create awareness among the school children on water conservation methods and to harvest rainwater towards improving the groundwater table, explained DWMA, project director Y Shekhar Reddy.
The agency’s technical staff visits the schools to identify the location for the pits keeping the flow of the rainwater and availability of land in view. Maximum of five percolation pits are planned to construct depending on availability of space at the respective schools.
‘At some schools where the availability land is less, we are constructing only one percolation pit. If the land is more, more than one structure is constructed. The construction of percolation tanks is being taken up with sizes 2x2x2 metre, 2x2x1 metre and 1.5x1.5x1.5 metre based on land availability’
The construction of the percolation pits is being taken up under MNRGES, he explained. Warangal is going to be the first district in the State to take up the construction of the percolation tanks on the schools premises, Shekhar Reddy told The Hans India.
The cross section of the percolation pits’ plan is being drawn on the school walls in order to make the students understand the structure of the water harvesting system. So far, 2,700 schools have been covered and work has been going on at 1,200 schools.
It might be noted that the DWMA has also embarked on construction of 5,412 farm ponds under the MGNREGS in the district in this season giving a big boost to rainwater harvesting.
By:James Edwin
