It's now raining heavily and no one is complaining anymore as people have waited desperately for these showers.
The water crisis faced by everyone in Thane district this summer made people look for ways to make ends meet. While some looked for old dams to be revived, some took to cleaning old wells and bore wells. But Ulhasnagar resident Pradip Kapoor has done what everyone else had only been talking about — he installed a rainwater harvesting system at his house and is hopeful that it will not only benefit him, but his neighborhood as well.
It's now raining heavily and no one is complaining anymore as people have waited desperately for these showers. And in the midst of this blessed rainfall, Kapoor (33), who is from Kurla camp in Ulhasnagar, installed his rainwater harvesting system at a cost of about Rs17,500.
Kapoor developed an interest in building this system and did a lot of research online to find a perfect fit for his house. “I approached a company called Waterfield in Thane that gave me a quotation of Rs42,000 to install the system,” Kapoor said. However, his brother, who is a mechanical engineer, told him to simply order a filter, which cost around Rs11,000.
“I fixed this filter, which has an inlet, on the terrace and also fixed an outlet that is attached to the bore-well in my compound,” he said. “The rainwater from the terrace gets collected in the inlet and goes to the bore-well at a depth of 350ft below the ground,” Kapoor further said, adding that all the dirt and stones in the water get collected in the wastage part of the system. “The entire system runs on gravity and no electricity,” he said.
After the rains in Ulhasnagar over the past few days, Kapoor decided to check the force of the water and pumped the bore-well. “To my surprise, the water came out with full force. Now, this bore-well will help not only my family, but all my neighbours too in case of a water shortage,” he said.
Ever since this rainwater harvesting system was installed, the Kapoor household has generated quite a large amount of curiosity in the neighbourhood, with people often visiting Kapoor to learn more about the system. “People from other societies come to us to understand the system. Till now, three societies have shown an interest and one person has even gone ahead and got a quotation for it,” Kapoor said.
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