This weekend was all about Water conservation. Yesterday, we had attended sessions on how to make use of rainwater and value water as a right and not a commodity. Today it was all about saving the existing water
bodies.
Bellandur lake is part of the interconnected lake systems built by
Kempegowda when Bangalore settlement was planned. It is also the largest of the
remaining lakes of Bangalore. The tanks (or what we call as lakes) were man
made storage wells created to provide abundant water to the city, which was
otherwise far away from other sources such as rivers and the sea. The tanks were cascading and built along the
slopes and valleys to accumulate water and also provide the excess collection
to the next tank in line.
