Renovation of Traditional Water Bodies (TWB) -Kapi Teertham in the Island of Rameshwaram

Alexander Walkar, Resident at Baroda, wrote (around 1820): “The practice of watering and irrigation is not peculiar to the husbandry of India, but it has probably been carried there to a greater extent, and more laborious ingenuity displayed in it than in any other country. The vast and numerous tanks, reservoirs, and artificial lakes as well as dams of solid masonry in rivers which they constructed.. show the extreme solicitude with which they had to secure this object. These systems need to be rejuvenated with equal ingenuity with which they were initially built and maintained. Over 500,000 of the old tanks still survive to this day. It has been calculated that tanks resorted or built over 3% of India’s land area could store one quarter of the nation’s rainfall”. Keeping this in mind, we are Renovating and Reviving all the 42 Teerthas which are outside the temple.

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