This is the most important waterbody in your life.
Each city must consider its local Waterbodies as the first source of supply.
These snakes live near Waterbodies and are semi-aquatic in nature
and can also live on trees.
This reflects in the questions on legislations to protect Waterbodies or to make rainwater harvesting mandatory.
However, there has been no initiative after 2007 by any organisation to count the number of healthy Waterbodies.
Located at an elevation of roughly 4000 feet, this natural waterbody is said to have nine corners; hence,
Though a lot of them are privately owned,
KMC has the right to take over the maintenance of neglected Waterbodies.
In 2007, our researchers at Vasundhara Foundation used Google satellite images and
found that the number of healthy Waterbodies(those with clean water) was 4,889.
Considering that 8,731 ponds existed 20 years ago as per NATMO's study,
we concluded that there was a loss of 3,842 Waterbodies in the last two decades.
Therefore, cities must only get funds for water projects,
when they have accounted for the water supply from local Waterbodies and have protected these Waterbodies and their catchments.
For example, if you are near a railway track, a waterbody or when there is an animal behind you while you click a selfie,
you will get a notification saying you are at an unsafe place.
Researchers for the British charity Pond Conservation have defined a pond to be'a man-made or
natural waterbody that is between 1 m2
and 20,000 m2 in area(2 ha or ~5 acres), which holds water for four months of the year or more.