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February 7th, 2011
GIS Supports Water Harvesting for Fires

Finding itself battling water scarcity instead of reaching an accident site on time, the fire department has finally woken up to city’s shrinking waterbodies and the need to look for an alternative rather fast. Desperate, the department is said to have approached the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority with a proposal for building of underground water reservoirs so that rainwater can be harvested for disaster management. Read More