Restoring water bodies.
A team of four is busy working towards bringing water back to homes!
Water scarcity is fast becoming India’s biggest problem.
Reeling under a second successive drought, Telangana, is facing a water crisis, with scarcity hitting not just the villages but even the capital Hyderabad.
Helping the government of Telangana, in their effort to restore water bodies across the state, are four IIIT-H alumni.
G. Gowtham (33), Nagaraja Kaushik Gampa (32), Pullata Mahendra (30) along with their professor Dr Rajan, head, Lab for spatial informatics at IIIT-H, have started their company KAIINOS, that aims to help the Telangana government with Mission Kakatiya.
After the formation of Telangana, the government, under Mission Kakatiya, wanted to evaluate the state of water bodies and create a spatial database to be integrated into their existing systems.
With the help of the tools provided by us, department officials verified those tanks and are planning to rejuvenate them.
“We helped CRIDA to develop a tool for statistical analysis of watersheds, which in turn helped in developing watersheds across country,” says Mahendra.
Kaushik feels that it’s their passion to help the environment that drives the team.