Why Earthquakes at Vanasthalipuram, Hyderabad????

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Recently, the residents of Vanasthalipuram had sleepless nights and still worried for tomorrow. The reason is the occurrence of series of earthquakes.

The need of the hour is to understand why the earthquakes are coming and what do to for preventing and managing them.

Earthquake is a sudden violent shaking of the ground, caused by movements within the Earth's Crust.

What could be the local reasons to get such movements? Some of such reasons includes:

@ Mismatched town planning
@ Heavy buildings both for residential and commercial purpose
@ Making unhealthy holes for drawing groundwater
@ No place left out for growing / developing greenery
@ Total sealing of the /surface / ground both inside and outside the residence
@ No scope for recharging the groundwater through various ways of Rainwater
Harvesting (RWH)
@ Lack of awareness
@ Poor implementation
@ Improper monitoring and evaluation
@ No respect for Mother Earth and its resources

Knowing the local reasons, what local residents can do? They can do wonders. It includes:

@ Insist for suitable town planning matching to the local conditions / environment
@ Permit heavy buildings either for residency or commercial purpose based on the
local NEEDS only
@ Regulate the drilling of bore wells based on the local groundwater situation
@ Leave sufficient space to grow greenery both at individual and community level
@ Install and insist for Rainwater Harvesting both at individual and community level
@ Create awareness among the residents and other stakeholders in respect of
management of natural resources, mainly land and water
@ Insist for better implementation of the plans / measures at individual, community
and authority level
@ Participate in the process of monitoring and evaluation
@ Do respect for the Mother Earth for getting its permission (present situation /
signal is a warning) to use its resources.

Finally, as long as we are respecting the Mother Earth while utilizing its resources with healthy and eco-friendly policies / strategies / approaches, we can have sustainable development with quality.

What happened at Vanasthalipuram is the warning for the local residents as well as for other public of Hyderabad that unhealthy development needs to be regularized.

With the simple measures as indicated above can help us to create healthy environment with development and thus to lead better living with sustainability and quality of life.

Do you feel that the listed measures are very difficult to implement?????
Certainly not................
It needs commitment with concern & responsibility with accountability
Then why to delay................
Start and insist other to follow with participative measures........
Then it certainly works for wonders and needn't to have sleepless nights......
Every activity should be on NEED based (local residents) only..............

Hope this message ignites our minds to commit for the sustainable development with need based strategies ONLY.

Let us join hands for creating an healthy and friendly environment with due respect to our Mother Earth. I will be happy to provide more information on this and support for the cause.....

Looking forward for better networking....