In regions such as Punjab where the ground water table was high, the soak pit would not be a viable solution. Thus, there was no nationwide estimate of the number of soak pits required.

Contractors will have to mandatorily construct soak pits every 200 meters to 300 meters ... The basic idea is to increase the ground water table for the borewells, which has been a common ...

Sitamarhi district administration on Thursday built 2,168 soak pits in government schools, health centres and police stations among others in one go, for water conservation and recharging ground ...

Besides conserving water, soak pits would help prevent diseases due to contaminated water, he said. Nipurnh Gupta, Communication Specialist of UNICEF told PTI that the International body has ...

A 45-year-old corporation sanitary worker drowned in a seven-feet-deep soak pit that was dug during the ... maintained that it was closed but due to water logging, slush had formed in the area.