Karnal to get 30 water harvesting systems

Tribune News Service
Karnal, September 21

To recharge water table in Karnal city, the Karnal Smart City Ltd (KSCL), a special purpose vehicle to look after the Smart City project, has started the process to install 30 water harvesting systems in the area. Work on nine water harvesting systems has been started.

Karnal block is in dark zone and its ground water is declining every year. As per the report of Ground Water Cell, the water table of Karnal block has witnessed a fall of 12.87 metre in the past 44 years. It was 5.9 metre in 1974, which fell to 11.69 metre in June 2004 and later to 18.77 metre in June 2018.

“The water table has been declining due to over exploitation, which is an alarm bell for all. So, we have decided to recharge the water table. We have taken up a project of installing 30 water harvesting systems in the smart city project,” said Nishant Kumar Yadav, CEO KSCL-cum-DC.

He said these harvesting systems were being installed in government offices, schools, colleges, parks and one in Karnal Municipal Corporation Office. The work on the project is going on in full swing at the offices of Agriculture Department, Animal Husbandry Department, Civil Surgeon Office, Civil Hospital, government schools in Model Town, Daha, Zarifa farm, and Madhuban. He said the project would help in recharging the water table.