Managed Aquifer Recharge: Monthly Progress Update

Significant progress was achieved across all major infrastructure components of the Marico phase 2, Managed Aquifer Recharge project.

Rainwater harvesting installations were completed in 81 sites, meeting 100% of the planned target.

Grey-water treatment systems reached 60% completion, and all operational units achieved 100% efficiency in reuse, supporting garden irrigation and site-level water recycling.

Parallel to this, monitoring systems were strengthened with the successful installation of 20 rain gauges and the continued fortnightly tracking of 23 groundwater monitoring wells, ensuring consistent data collection for hydro-ecological assessment and future planning.

Awareness and literacy activities also progressed strongly, with full completion of all scheduled capacity-building initiatives. A total of six teacher and student workshops were conducted, focusing on water conservation, greywater reuse, and safe water practices.

Additionally, water audits were carried out in 5 schools, engaging students for water stewardship. These combined efforts in infrastructure development, monitoring, and community awareness reflect a well-rounded advancement of project goals for the month and contribute meaningfully toward long-term water sustainability in the intervention areas.

As part of the hydrogeological assessment, an aquifer monitoring inventory was carried out in 200 borewells across seven villages in the Bahour region. This initiative provides critical baseline data on groundwater levels, recharge potential, and aquifer stress zones for guiding future water management interventions.

A total of 23 dugwells were surveyed to record static water levels and assess seasonal groundwater variation in Pooranankuppam village as part of the Aquifer Monitoring in Puducherry region.