RWH

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In new homes, for every square metre of roof area a 20-litre capacity storage or recharge structure needs to be designed

Rainwater harvesting has become mandatory for all new homes being built in Bangalore even on a small 30 x 40 ft. site. This is necessary if you have to have a connection from the city water utility.Read More

Guest post by S. Vishwanath

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Needed: 24×7 access to safe water

Wise policies and pioneering initiatives are a must in the urban water supply and sanitation sector

Useful: RWH has multiple benefits

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Guest Post by Vishwanath S

Article and Image Courtesy: The Pioneer

The rains have been bountiful this year and there’s little to complain about. But while a good monsoon will no doubt ensure a good harvest, it would have been far better if people had bothered about harvesting and storing rain water — in villages and cities. Shall we work on it?

It was a dark and stormy night. Yes, sure it was, and I was inside a mosquito net — the ‘machchardani’— in the ‘aangan’ of our house in Korea. Before you ask North or South, the Korea I knew still remains one and is located in Surguja district of Chattisgarh. When the night was dark and stormy it used to be called MP, never Madhya Pradesh. I was all of 10 and my siblings were five and three, which makes it pretty uncaring of my parents to have gone to the local club to play ‘Puploo’, a version of the card game rummy popular among colliery officers in north India. But they had gone for just an hour, or so they said.Read More

International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) was created in Geneva in November 2002 following recomendations formulated during the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg two months earlier. The mandate called for federation and unification of the disparate rainwater harvesting (RWH) movement around the world, to promote rainwater as a valuable water resource and to build on achievements in this field for the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals.

In partnership with the most eminent organisations and individuals in the field, the IRHA provides a lobbying and advocacy platform for RWH. It supports the growth of RWH solutions to water supply problems. It also provides a forum for its members to work together or share experiences, and thus for the benefit of people living with water scarcity.

Topic of this issue: Agricultural Rainwater HarvestingRead More