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BWSSB’s rainwater harvesting theme park completes 10 years

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• Established in 2012 by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB)
• It is named after Sir M. Visvesvaraya Rainwater Harvesting Theme Park
• Has become a destination for awareness and training programmes.
• The park Showcases
  • 26 types of live models of RWH structures (as per the design of the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology)
  • Different plants for water conservation
  • Different structures for infiltration of rainwater into the ground
  • Collection and usage
• Karnataka government made rainwater harvesting(RWH) mandatory in November 2009. To promote RWH, BWSSB launched a campaign
• Following BWSSB, similar theme parks were established at Hyderabad in Telangana in 2017 and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh in 2019. The theme parks in Bengaluru and Hyderabad have received national awards and recognition
• Harvesting rainwater is now more important than ever, given the large-scale decline in groundwater levels and Bengaluru’s dependence on the Cauvery to quench its thirst.