Water Harvesting
Being a critical and perpetual natural resource, water is essential for the health of every species on Earth, socio-economic prosperity of a country, food production, and environment. Many countries are facing severe pressure of water scarcity around the world. On the other side, changing demographic patterns, socio-economic development, technological innovation and environmental degradation, especially climate change, are responsible for creating an acute water shortage for human life (Wu et al. 2020). In such a situation, it has been found that technological solutions like rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse and desalination can reduce the problem to some extent, also in countries with modest economical means.
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The term ‘water harvesting’ generally refers to the collection of rainstorm-generated runoff from a particular area (a catchment) in order to provide water for human, animal, or crop use. The water thus collected can either be utilized immediately, as for irrigation, or be stored in aboveground ponds or in subsurface reservoirs, such as cisterns or shallow aquifers, for subsequent utilization. As such, water harvesting is an ancient practice that has enabled some societies to subsist in semiarid and arid areas where other sources of fresh water (e.g., rivers, lakes, or aquifers) are scant or unavailable.
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Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off. Rainwater is collected from a roof like surface and redirected to a tank, cistern, deep pit (well, shaft, or borehole), aquifer, or a reservoir with percolation, so that it seeps down and restores the ground water.
Poddar International College, one of the top colleges in Rajasthan undertakes many research projects related to water harvesting under the Department of Science and Technology.
Rain harvesting has many advantages. They are listed below:
In Poddar International College students are aware about water harvesting system and made many working modals related to rain water harvesting.
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