To address the issue of water crisis in the capital, Delhi government has decided to revive “non-functional” rainwater harvesting systems in schools to raise the groundwater level.
Around 800 governmentrun schools have rainwater harvesting pits and over 50% of them are non-functional, mostly due to no monitoring by the previous regime, Delhi government education coordinator, Amit Mishra said.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/govt-revive-rainwater-harvesting-schools
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/times-india-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-harvesting
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater-recharge
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-environmental-engineering-research-institute-neeri
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indian-institute-technology-iit
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-conservation
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-resources