Akash Ganga Chennai started in July 2001 with active participation by about ten citizen volunteers in Chennai. The group's objective is to promote Rain water harvesting in India. Since inception, the group has conducted several seminars, printed and distributed pamphlets, conducted training sessions for builders and masons. Today, there are over 100 people in the group and it is growing.
Early on, the group realized that their cause would be more effectively
spread if they had a model installation that people can look at. We lacked
a facility where we could take the citizen or homeowner
and show the rain water harvesting system in action. This need was the birth
of the rain centre. Today, after several months of effort, the rain centre is
a reality. For information on what is available at the rain centre please
browse this website. And please take a
virtual tour of the rain centre.
The rain centre is a model house with all forms of rain water harvesting (RWH) ideas relevant to Chennai. Chennai residents (and others) can take a tour of the facility to see the RWH systems in action. Seminars specific to builders, masons, companies, school children, and home owners alike will be offered.
The rain centre is located at No 4, Third Trust Link Street, Mandavelipakkam, Chennai 600 028. Work began on this centre in April 2001 and is expected to be ready by May 2002.
The rain centre is intended to be a museum and a laboratory rolled into one. As a museum, it is intended to showcase how an installed RWH system works. Interested people can take our tours, visit the various rooms in the house, see exhibitions on RWH, get pamphlets, and buy books on RWH. As a laboratory, it is intended, to demonstrate a working version of the RWH. We intend to collect and display statistics of how much rain water has been accumulated over time. We also intend to have a water testing facility on site wherein people can test the purity of water.
For a virtual tour of the house, start with Introduction to the rain centre.
Next time, as you are strolling along in the city, look for our telltale sign shown below.
Rain water harvesting is simply the concept of collecting the rain water that falls over the roof over which you live to be reused for day-to-day water needs. For a more exhaustive description of rain water harvesting, please visit our sister site on the subject: Rain water harvesting - Akash Ganga Chennai
The concept is endorsed by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. The CSE will provide exhibits and seminar materials to be displayed in the rain centre. The rain centre is Chennai will be the first Rain Centre in India. CSE has interest in duplicating this effort in other cities.