pune summer is harsh on animals especially if they do not have access to water to provide better access to water for birds at nanegaon village in mulshi a group of volunteers have built a costeffective waterholethe waterhole measuring about 30feet long and 3feet deep was built by volunteers of the mungi ant nature conservation group from nisargved charitable trustaccording to group member saee purandare around 25 volunteers built the ecofriendly artificial waterhole using highdensity polyethylene hdpe sheet layered over a dugup hole and covered with big natural rocks and sand at the end of februarythe waterhole is now being maintained by ashwin paranjpe of gomukh and locals from the area it has already started attracting wildlife from the nearby area after the work of building the water was completed we also installed a trap camera atop a tree nearby we have captured images of wildlife including deer at the spot since the camera only captures movement of large animals we have not been able to capture the movement of birds here she saidexplaining the specialty of the waterhole saee said it is saucer shaped this makes the water accessible to birds and animals even when levels are very low so they can literally consume water to its last litre in many other places waterholes are square shaped which are not as easilyaccessible for the wildlife nisargved has been building waterholes for wildlife across the state and has built close to 350 so far she said