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WHAT IS RAINWATER HARVESTING ? |
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Conservation of rainwater is known as ‘Rainwater Harvesting’. Rainwater Harvesting is the accumulating, channelizing and storing of rainwater. It is the technique of collection and storage of rainwater at surface or in sub-surface aquifers, before it is lost as surface run-off. The augmented resource can be harvested in the time of need. Rainwater harvesting has been used to provide drinking water, water for livestock, water for irrigation or to refill aquifers in a process called groundwater recharge. Rainwater collected from the roofs of houses, tents and local institutions, or from specially prepared areas of ground, can make an important contribution to drinking water. In some cases, rainwater may be the only available, or economical, water source. Rainwater systems are simple to construct from inexpensive local materials, and are potentially successful in most habitable locations. Roof rainwater can be of good quality and may not require treatment before consumption. However some rooftop materials may produce rainwater that is harmful to human health.
There are a number of types of systems to harvest rainwater ranging from very simple to the complex industrial systems. Generally, rainwater is either harvested from the ground or from a roof. The rate at which water can be collected from either system is dependent on the plan area of the system, its efficiency, and its intensity of rainfall. On the average rainfall of 1000mm, approximately 10,000 liters of rainwater gets collected in one acre of land, after the evaporation.
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