Sunday, October 07, 2007

Making "Rain Water Harvesting" (RWH) compulsory for approval of large construction projects

I believe anything good may not be accepted immediately, in such cases, someone who can enforce must ensure the acceptance by creating a rule/law. If we can dig up history of all the laws or rules, they have some history behind its making. I would not dwelve much on the history or law.
I was just wondering if implementation of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) can be made compulsory by the approval boards of each state or area for any construction greater than a certain size.
Every plans for construction should be approved by necessary authority and given a go-ahead. Also, there are guidelines and norms a plan should adhere by to get such approvals. If the norms include the RWH for building/constructions of a certain size, it would sure help the cause of preserving ground water.
Proper care should be taken to enforce such implementation only in feasibile locations. It is not possible to implement RWH in all types of land. Also care should be taken to close all routes to escape from implementing on feasible lands.
I am not sure if such rules/norms/guidelines are already in place.

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