Hindu temples in the city are gearing up for the monsoon to store water in their tanks. For this purpose, both modern and ancient rainwater harvesting structures are being cleaned, desilted and even new ones are set up.
Temple tanks help recharge groundwater in the localities they are situated.
At Saidapet’s Karaneeswarar Temple, new channels that are wider than what was constructed earlier have been laid to the tank. “If the channels are wider, they will carry more water. When the tank dried in March-April, we cleaned up the bed. We made a small pit inside the tank and put the fish there. And now after two spells of rain, there is quite a bit of water and the fish are fine,” said a temple official.
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