Suggest your views on the traditional system of water harvesting?
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⚫From rooftops, they collected water and stored it in tanks built in their courtyards. From open community lands, they collected the rain and stored it in artificial wells. They harvested monsoon runoff by capturing water from swollen streams during the monsoon season and stored it various forms of water bodies.
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In recent years, many parts of our country have been facing crisis of groundwater availability. Thus, there is a greater need of surface water collection, storage, treatment and supply at household level for domestic use.
Many indigenous water saving methods have been used by local communities to capture water wherever it falls on their land, like digging small pits and lakes, building small earthen dams and reservoirs and setting up roof top rainwater harvesting units.
In different parts of our country, rainwater harvesting was practiced in different ways. In Madhya Pradesh, check dams, tanks and community lift irrigation schemes were used to overcome drought. As a result, food production got increased by 38% in between 1990 and 1995.
In Andhra Pradesh also, percolation tanks and checkdams were constructed to overcome drought. Even in Maharashtra, percolation tanks were used to convert drought prone areas into green lands.
In Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Gramin Vigyan Vikas Samiti motivated people to build storage tanks. Water harvesting techniques are highly specific areas and the benefits are also localised.
These days, rooftop rainwater harvesting is practiced. It is a method of direct collection of rainwater on the rooftop of buildings, houses as well as those of industries buildings.
The rainwater collected can be stored for direct use or can be allowed to reach under the ground. Once the water reaches the groundwater table is raised. It is thus, a solution to the problem of depleting groundwater.