Science, asked by Harshachandani, 1 year ago

short essay on rainwater harvesting

Answers

Answered by GODwin99
18
Rain water hervesting:
Rainwater harvesting means collecting the rain water into the natural reservoirs or man-made tanks. It is the technique to collect and store rainwater for various purposes in the future. The most common and easy method of rain water harvesting is the rooftop harvesting. Using this technique we can collect lots of clean rain water in the rainy season. It can be stored for long time for the household purposes like gardening, livestock, and irrigation, etc. Following are benefits of rain water harvesting:

It helps in reducing water supply loads and electricity bills of municipality, improve free water supply, crop production in rural areas, and thus lead to food security.Rain water harvesting system helps in reducing the insecurity of households or individuals in the rural areas.It provides easy and low cost water supply in the lack of water areas thus helps in food security and income generation.

Tamil Nadu is one of the states of India and now has been first Indian state where rainwater harvesting has been mandatory. Tamil Nadu state government has declared on 30th of May 2014 to establish around 50,000 rainwater harvesting structures at various places in the Chennai. Till now, approximately 4,000 of the temples in the Tamilnadu have rain water tanks serving at various rituals in temples and help in recharging the groundwater.


Hope this helps you ✌️ ✌️ ✌️
Pls mark as brainliest......
Answered by Anonymous
5
┏─━─━─━─━∞◆∞━─━─━─━─┓
✭✮ӇЄƦЄ ƖƧ ƳƠƲƦ ƛƝƧƜЄƦ✮✭
┗─━─━─━─━∞◆∞━─━─━─━─┛

Rainwater Harvesting➫ The technique used to store rainwater by making water harvesting structure to recharge the underground water resource.

♦ It is one of the methods that can be used for water conservation.

♦ It can be a paved area like the terrace or courtyard of a building.

♦ If we are to have a sustainable future, then rainwater harvesting is going to have to become an important part of our life.

♦ The catchment of a water Harvesting system is the surface which directly receives the rainfall and provides water to the system.

➧ Types of rainwater harvesting system are:-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=⤵

❱ Direct Pumped
❱ Indirect Pumped
❱ Indirect Gravity

➧ It comprises components of various stages:-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=⤵

❱ Transporting Rainwater through pipes or drains.

❱ Filtration.

❱ storage in tanks for reuse or recharge.

➧ How is the Rainwater Harvesting Done:-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=⤵

❱ By taking rooftop rainwater directly into the ground by drain pipes, dug well or Sunk for water pump.

❱ By taking rain water directly into pond & tanks.

❱ By making percolation tanks, well, deep pits or trenches in the path of rainwater.

➧ Advantages of Rainwater Harvesting are:-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=⤵

❱ It reduces run of loss of rainwater.

❱ It maintains supply of water during dry month.

❱ It recharges underground water.

❱ It checks soil erosion.

_________
Thanks...✊
Similar questions