While visiting the new campus of CMC Vellore at Kanigapuram, 7 kilometres away from its present campus, where a new hospital is being built, I found a pleasantly surprising sight !
Water at six feet, when excavated for pile foundation!
Vellore is a water starved area due to limited rain fall. This land which is at the foot hill of a range of mountains naturally receives the rain water from the hills. Although it is not a wet land, it used to be used for agriculture in the past.
The hospital where Anna and I work now is through a season of scarcity of water. Only two tube wells dug recently out of five yielded water!
The ground water is the natural source for many! Its depletion can be a threatening situation!
Water conservation through rain water harvesting is successfully done in many places to restore the ground water level! It is one way of expressing our stewardship of our environment!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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