Engineer Ram Shankar installed rainwater collecting structures at his Chennai home almost two decades ago.
"My well had almost dried up and there was a lot of iron content in the well water at the time," recalled the 49-year-old, who began harvesting water before a government directive made it mandatory in 2003.
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