BWSSB minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, concerned over large-scale unregulated use of groundwater, on Monday promised to issue an ordinance to enforce this Act.
BANGALORE: Ensure your building is equipped with rainwater harvesting technology in the next few months. If not, local authorities will install one for you and collect the expenses later.
These are the provisions of the Karnataka Ground Water (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Bill 2007. It also includes establishment of the Karnataka Ground Water Authority.
Though approved by the cabinet in 2007, this Bill is yet to be placed before the legislature for approval. But BWSSB minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, concerned over large-scale unregulated use of groundwater, on Monday promised to issue an ordinance to enforce this Act.
Even though the Act is applicable to the entire state, the government is concentrating on making rainwater harvesting equipment mandatory for all new buildings — residential and commercial — in Bangalore.
Aimed at replenishing groundwater, the Act, once it becomes operational, makes it mandatory for users of groundwater through well or borewell to register with the Ground Water Authority within 120 days of its establishment.
"The campaign will start soon," Naidu said.
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