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COIMBATORE: Rain water harvesting, recycling and reuse of waste water and using less water will help in water conservation, according to the Director of Rain Centre, Chennai, Sekhar Raghavan.

Speaking at a meeting organised here on Monday by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Siruthuli on the occasion of World Water Day, Mr. Raghavan said that each one should take a pledge not to take water for granted and to take all efforts to manage water resources. Water is needed for different purposes such as drinking and washing. However, the quality of water need not be the same for all purposes. “So, we need to learn to live with different qualities of water.”

Just 1 per cent of the fresh water was available in the readily usable form. Of that, ground water was the predominant source. Indians had been leaders in water harvesting. Tamil Nadu had 39,000 irrigation ponds and most of these were inter-connected. These ponds could be classified into system non system ponds. Now, several industries had come up on the water bodies and domestic effluent was discharged into these ponds.

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