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Rain Water Harvesting
Rain Water Harvesting
Rain Water Harvesting
HARVESTING
Booklet by:
D. Pavan Kumar-9494069323
E-Mail: pavannstyle@gmail.com
Need.???
Citizens of Greater Hyderabad continue
to be deprived of even the minimum
liters per capita of water per person per
day of 165 liters (LPCD) a norm set by
the WHO, or 150 LPCD as per the
Central Public
Health
and
Environmental
Engineering
Organization. This translates into 140
liters in cities with underground
drainage as per the Centres benchmark
.Between 1950 and 2009, global water
demand increased 4 times and if the
current trend persists, the demand for
the water could exceed the availability
supply within 30 years.
How is it done???
RWH has been practiced since a long time
where there was scarcity for drinking water
in places like Rajasthan, North-East regions
of India called Kunds and Bamboo-Drip
irrigation respectively which are slowly
being lost to the modern onslaught.
In the modern society there are many
more vast methods in saving rain water from
Roof top harvesting to Ground water dams.
Harvesting will depend very much on the
nature of the soil viz. clayey, sandy, rocky
etc.
Of lately ground water dams is a latest way
of saving ground water from entering into the
sea.
Rooftop Harvesting
Rooftop rainwater is of a good quality as it
falls on clean terraces and is brought down
by the drain pipes called rooftop pipes. Any
overflow from the sump can be led into an
open well, if any, within the premises. Pipes
not directed to the sump can also be led into
the well.
Recharge Well
These are constructed using cement rings
readily available in the market. The diameter
of these rings range from 2.5ft to 6.0ft
depending on the volume of water that is
likely to be ingested into each one of them.
The depth to which these wells are dug
depends on the nature of the soil. They are
left unfilled and are covered with RCC slabs
of suitable thickness to facilitate vehicular
movement on them.