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Nirupama Viswanathan ByExpress News ServiceThe Chennai city corporation is to set up 'water body monitoring' committees at the zonal level to monitor the water bodies under its purview. "We have asked committee members to coordinate with our electrical engineers to ensure that the area around the water bodies are well-lit. The city corporation has 210 water bodies under its purview. "We faced this issue in a pond in Jalladiampet and two others in OMR and ECR," said a Corporation official. Another senior corporation official said that the city corporation was also looking at the possibility of implementing the 'Miyawaki' method of ecological engineering around these water bodies..