Rain water harvesting in india pdf

In situ water harvesting is a special variety of rain water harvesting in which the rain incident on a plot of land is harvested there itself by storing it in a pit or trench. This method is useful in areas having heavy rainfall with quick runoff and no aquifers to recharge the rain water. In such a situation there is no need of examples of traditional rainwater systems in india include bamboo pipes and apatani systems of eastern himalayas, ghul of western himalayas, zabo and cheo-ozihi of north eastern india, dongs, garh and dara of brahmaputra valley, kund, khadin, talabs, beri, johad, baoli etc. of thar desert and gujrat, the havelis of jabalpur, bandh and bandhulia … Rainwater harvesting is defined as process of augmenting the natural infiltration of rainwater or surface water into the ground by some artificial methods.In rooftop harvesting, the roof becomes the catchmentsand the rainwater is collected from the roof of the house/building it can either be storedin a tank or diverted to recharge pit etc. In general, water harvesting is the activity of direct collection of rainwater. The rainwater collected can be stored for direct use or can be recharged into the groundwater. Rain is the first form of new fresh waterthat we know in the hydrological cycle, hence is a primary source of water for us. RAINWATER HARVESTING IN MADHYA PRADESH Agricultural Water Management Learning and Discussion Brief MAY 2011 • Madhya Pradesh is the highest producer in India of pulses, gram and soybean, and ranks second in oilseed production. • There are 7.36 million holdings which operate 16.37 million hectares of land. Of the 15 million hectares of to build their own rain water harvesting systems and wells. Feroze Shah Tughlaq (1351-1388 A.D.) built the Western Yamuna Canal in 1355 to extend irrigation facilities in the dry land northwest India, rain water was collected in underground storage tanks called Tanka, Kunds or Kundis. However, the first known construction of a Kund was in IEEE India Info. Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr - Jun 2018 Page 30 Rainwater Harvesting - The Success Story of Chennai Dr. Sekhar Raghavan (Ashoka Fellow) Director, Rain Centre 4, 3 rd Trust Link Street Mandavelipakkam, Chennai 600028 Email: sekar1479@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT The story of Chennai, a coastal city in South India is a very interesting one. CPCB ENVIS| Control of Pollution Water, Air and Noise Created Date: 9/20/2011 6:36:54 PM AJSS, Vol .1, No.1, Mar-Aug 2002, pp 49 - 56 RAINWATER HARVESTING IN INDIA Dr.Rekha Jagannath* Abstract The objective of this article is to provide awareness into the process of rainwater harvesting so as to make people proactive in conserving fast depleting water resources through this technique, which has been used in India from time immemorial, but is now forgotten behind the insignia of Traditional Rainwater Harvesting in Rajasthan Though the state of Rajasthan India's largest state by area and supports about 5 percent of the human population and 20 percent of the livestock, it possesses just 1.2 percent of the total surface water and only 1.7 percent of the groundwater available in India. In scientific terms rainwater harvesting means collection and storage of rainwater at surface or sub-surface, before and it is practiced since ages all over the world and in India too. In the recent times due to the spread of piped water supply in urban and rural areas, the rainwater harvesting practices has