Hyderabad: On Tuesday, Kakatiya Park in Habsiguda hosted an awareness programme about the shallow aquifer recharge project.
Participating in the event were local people as well as civic authorities. The Rainwater Project (TRP) and GHMC are working on the project as part of a nationwide effort run by the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). With a watershed area of more than 6.85 lakh square metres, the park can store 44.6 crore litres and potentially receive 53 lakh litres of rainwater annually. This project increased that capacity, which will lessen urban floods and replenish groundwater.
This concept is implemented in four additional parks inside the city, in addition to Kakatiya Park. “Groundwater levels are falling severely in the city, with many borewells getting dry,” GHMC stated in a news release. In the meanwhile, even light showers are flooding the city’s streets. In order to solve this problem, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’ AMRUT programme includes a pilot project called the “Shallow Aquifer Recharge Project,” which GHMC has taken up.
In order to pump out the water in the shallow aquifers, shallow water injection borewells will be installed up to a depth of 100 to 120 feet. By gathering water from the nearby watershed regions and directing it through recharge pits, this will assist the layers underneath in recharging whenever it rains.
Participating at the occasion were Deputy Director Chandra Sekhara Rao, Additional Commissioner (UBD) Dr. Sunanda Rani, TRP’s Kalpana Ramesh, and other authorities.
-Raja Aditya