Can lakes solve Bengaluru's water crisis? | Veena Srinivasan

Veena Srinivasan, Executive Director of WELL Labs, talks about whether lakes have the ability to solve Bengaluru's water crisis.

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Dr.Jayalalitha ji had made it compulsory that all houses above 1200sqft plot in cities and towns in tamilnadu have to dig a 5 ft x 5ft x 5ft Recharge pit and all the outlet pipes of terraces in these houses should send the rain water to this recharge pit which has helped recharge tamilnadu cities ground water. All houses those days had wells and not borewells. Bengaluru people should start digging wells in their houses.she made people dig recharge pits and connect their terrace outlets to this pit and made it a success with a clause that if recharge pit is not dug and approved by corporation office then cauvery drinking water connection in that house will be disconnected.