LAKES CHITLAPAKKAM LAKE SEMBAKKAM LAKE SELAYUR LAKE RAJAKILPAKKAM LAKE PRESENTED BY MADAMBAKKAM LAKE- RESCOM BOAZ PUBLIC SCHOOL, GOWRIVAKKAM CHENNAI-73 LAKES- NOT A WASTE LAND IT IS OUR WATER LAND PRESENTED BY BOAZ RESCOM BOAZ PUBLIC SCHOOL, GOWRIVAKKAM 1. INTRODUCTION
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3. KNOW ABOUT LAKES
4. FACTS ABOUT THE FIVE GRIM LAKES
5. DEPLETED WATER BODIES
6.REMEDIAL STRATEGIES
7. PHOTO GALLERY
8. LOCATION OF THE LAKES FROM SCHOOL
9. CONCLUSION
10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The five core attributes for water security established by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Human right to water entitles everyone to Sufficient, Safe, Socially Acceptable, Physically accessible, and Economically affordable Water for personal and domestic use . A lake is an area filled with water that is surrounded by a bund. a river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.[1] Lakes are larger and deeper than ponds,
In order to put in our small effort to save our planet and
save our water bodies, we have selected five lakes, as our Jubilee cause.. On behalf of our Management, Staff, and Students we aspire to spread awareness among society with regard to saving and using water in a sustainable manner. These five grim lakes, as we call them now, suffer from encroachments, dumping and burning of wastes, and unchecked inflow of domestic and industrial effluents. Water availability in the lakes is very low or not availalble at all.
1.Chitlapakkam lake, 2.Sembakkam lake, 3.Selaiyur Lake 4.Rajakilpakkam lake 5.Madambakkam Lake SO . Chennai is reeling from severe water scarcity. This is the result absence of rain, changing climatic conditions and the unsustainable usage. We also face haphazard urbanization and we are living in an ever expanding suburb. The quality of water in the selected five grim lakes of the suburb of Chennai is really very bad.
The five selected lakes have the capability of recharging ground water levels in the surrounding,
They can serves as a good water harvesting system during monsoons.
They can reduce the burden of water scarcity for the people living around. They can be converted into good recreation centres, and a good spot for jogging and other excercises, they can also harbour aquatic life and birds.
But the actual fact is that these lakes suffer due to enormous encroachment, and the dumping of domestic and industrial effluents.
Selaiyur Lake, Rajakilpakkam Lake and Chitlapakkam Lake suffer from
encroachments. Political parties have their flags hoisted here, the Electricity Board has provided them with good electric supply . Pattas are being issued to people in order to capture state power.
Sembakkam Lake is highly polluted with sewage . The sembakkam
Municipality has converted the lake into a garbage dump and a drainage.system. STEPS TAKEN
JUDICIAL STEP Hardly have we heard on P.I.L. (Public Interest Litigation) on the state over saving water bodies,
This would enhance the awareness of the people and a careful feeling among the politicians about encroaching the properties which is supposed to be maintained for the people.
AWARENESS AMONG COMMON PEOPLE
Creating awareness on any issue will empower the people to safeguard themselves. When we create awareness among people by creative ways will make the people and will empower them to fight against uncaring officials and the greedy politicians. PHYSICAL OR PRACTICAL STEPS DESILTING WATERBODIES, CLEANING THE LAKE BEDS AND LAKE BANKS, REPAIRING THE BUNDS AND MAKING IT STRONGER, NOT LETTING IN THE SEWAGE WATER INTO THE LAKES PREVENTING THE ENCROACMENT OF THE LAKE AREA, INVOLVING LOCAL PEOPLE TO PROTECTING THEIR WATERBODIES. SPREADING AWARENESS AMONG STUDENTS ABOUT SUSTAINALE DEVELOPMENT……… CONDUCTING AWARENESS CAMPAIGN NEAR EVERY LAKE AREA , AND TALKING WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE IN SAFEGUARDING THEIR LAKE……. CONCLUSION PICTURES OF CHITLAPAKKAM LAKE BEFORE RESTORATION CHITLAPAKKAM LAKE SOME YEARS AGO
THE LAKE WITH ITS NATURES BEAUTY AND DECAYING
CAUSED BY HUMAN CARELESSNESS……. Over the last three years, Chitlapakkam Rising has been in the vanguard of efforts to draw attention to the condition of the Chitlapakkam lake, frequently conducting campaigns to press for the restoration of the waterbody. It has also been conducting Sunday clean-ups at Chitlapakkam, mobilising residents of the locality. In what can be seen as a boost to these efforts by the residents-driven voluntary group, it has received the go-ahead from the Water Resources Department (WRD) of the Public Works Department (PWD) to drive initiatives to restore the waterbody. In an order dated May 29, 2019, the executive engineer, WRD, Lower Palar Basin Division, Kancheepuram, has granted permission for desilting the Chitlapakkam and strengthening its bunds. “We will form a Chitlapakkam Lake Protection Committee with the participation of environmental NGOs and residents welfare associations to devise short and long-term plans to desilt the lake using scientific and eco- friendly methods, increase its storage capacity and strengthen the bunds. A long task is ahead of us but we are confident of doing it together,” says Sunil Jayaram, one of the founders of Chitlapakkam Rising. The WRD has fixed September 15 as deadline. Sunil says Chitlapakkam Rising is in talks with environmental NGOs, local body authorities, elected representatives and corporates about the project plan, manpower and machinery requirement, funding and a time frame to desilt the lake. Chitlapakkam is facing one of the worst cases of water scarcity in decades. “Borewells that are 300 and 400 feet deep have gone completely dry and private suppliers are unable to meet the enormous demand. Water, which is a basic amenity, has become an expensive commodity only because waterbodies have been neglected for decades. Chitlapakkam Lake has not been desilted in 30 years. Landfills, encroachments and discharge of sewage have contaminated the lake,” says Sunil. Lakshmi Krishnakumar, a member and volunteer of Chitlapakkam Rising, says this should have been WRD’s project but the residents couldn’t wait any longer as the water level in the lake as well as the groundwater in the locality has dipped drastically. “We were told that the WRD would begin the restoration work only by 2021, but that would be a long wait. Though it may take a few years for the lake to be filled with clean water, this is the right time to start. We are confident of completing the project within the deadline,” she says. Udayavani Dayanand, another member-volunteer, says the main source of contamination in the lake is the discharge of untreated sewage by the Tambaram Municipality. “The Tambaram Municipality has agreed to stop dumping waste in the lake. The team will continue to monitor the sewage inflow because if this doesn’t stop then our efforts will prove futile.”
