Overview
- Special teams will inspect properties over the next three months and issue notices to 16,000 owners who lack required harvesting pits.
- A 90-day public outreach campaign is underway to promote installation and maintenance of rainwater harvesting systems.
- The mandate obliges households on plots above 200 square yards to install harvesting pits and makes systems compulsory on premises exceeding 300 square yards.
- In partnership with NGOs, the board has already built 12,000 systems and plans to construct another 16,000 across the city.
- Following a deficient monsoon, groundwater levels have dropped and tanker bookings from July 1–14 rose from 63,724 last year to 86,520 this year.