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* What made you take up rain water harvesting?
The social responsibility towards the society, environment and global awareness initiative taken by the cooperates and Government made us to think and support to achieve the goal of go green and also to reduce the operational cost & save huge amounts on water bills We think about Rain Water Harvesting because we want to give something to nature the nature will take care of our future on this consent. We start Rain Water Harvesting project. we have to decide the proper place for Rain Water Harvesting for that we have to divert all rain water to harvesting unit by gravity only. So after survey of our property we collect rain water from our catchment area such as rooftop, tennis court area, playground and other. It is very challenging job but we done this job successfully. After selecting the place we check the soil strata on different area and select the proper soil strata having good percolation speed. We had done Rain Water Harvesting project by ringwell recharging method.

* What were the challenges faced during set up the system?
Rain water harvesting in a marshy land itself if a challenge because there is a limit of depth if we cross the limit we can’t reuse this water as this will mix with a salt water secondly we are doing this in the operational area where we are disturbing / inconvenience to our regular guests.

* Did you work with consultants and specialists to set up the system? Can you throw some light on this association?
Yes, we work together with M/s Sunlight consultancy Pvt Ltd. Company which working this field from last ten years. Also it had completed 400 projects in Mumbai itself. Today’s they save & store 10 million liter of water per day in rain season in Mumbai & we are proud of that one of them is The Club

* What does the maintenance of the set up comprise of?
Once or twice a year, at very little cost. Remember rainwater harvesting means that you have to get involved. This is

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