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Rainwater Collection Project
‘Rainwater Harvesting’ is a widely used term covering all those techniques whereby rain is intercepted and used ‘close’ to where it first reaches the earth. The term has been applied to arrangements to cause rainfall to percolate the ground rather than run off its surface, to forms of flood control, to the construction of small reservoirs to capture run-off water so that it can be used for cattle or micro-irrigation and to the collection of run-off from roofs and other impermeable surfaces. Thus, roof water harvesting is a subset of rainwater harvesting, albeit an important one.
The project concept is to collect the excess rainwater in a pond lined with the UV-resistant plastic liner. For this, people will dig a pond of different sizes and capacity. The overlow water is collected here and it can be used in the future mainly for the irrigation purposes and kitchen gardening.
Why Phoolbari Village needs Rainwater Harvesting systems (RHS)?
Phoolbari Village lies at about 2000 m. above the sea level and at the ridge top of the hill. With the water sources lying in the bottom of the hills, it suffers much duiring the dry seasons. People in the village are mostly farmers and most of them have Water-Buffaloes which they rear for the milk. It drinks alot of water (approx. 100 ltrs. a day). So, a normal villager uses almost about 200 Ltrs. water in a day for domestic purposes . For 20 Ltrs of water in a vessel called “Gagri”, women in the village spend almost 45 minutes. Half a day, women lose just carrying water.
Phoolbari Village has almost enough rainfall during the rainy season. So, rainwater harvesting system is one of the best alternative and nature friendly. As the village is at the ridge top and the sources are down in the bottoms, there is a problem in pumping the water up due to the frequent power cuts, non-perennial sources and other reasons.
Rainwater Collection Project
‘Rainwater Harvesting’ is a widely used term covering all those techniques whereby rain is intercepted and used ‘close’ to where it first reaches the earth. The term has been applied to arrangements to cause rainfall to percolate the ground rather than run off its surface, to forms of flood control, to the construction of small reservoirs to capture run-off water so that it can be used for cattle or micro-irrigation and to the collection of run-off from roofs and other impermeable surfaces. Thus, roof water harvesting is a subset of rainwater harvesting, albeit an important one.
The project concept is to collect the excess rainwater in a pond lined with the UV-resistant plastic liner. For this, people will dig a pond of different sizes and capacity. The overlow water is collected here and it can be used in the future mainly for the irrigation purposes and kitchen gardening.
Why Phoolbari Village needs Rainwater Harvesting systems (RHS)?
Phoolbari Village lies at about 2000 m. above the sea level and at the ridge top of the hill. With the water sources lying in the bottom of the hills, it suffers much duiring the dry seasons. People in the village are mostly farmers and most of them have Water-Buffaloes which they rear for the milk. It drinks alot of water (approx. 100 ltrs. a day). So, a normal villager uses almost about 200 Ltrs. water in a day for domestic purposes . For 20 Ltrs of water in a vessel called “Gagri”, women in the village spend almost 45 minutes. Half a day, women lose just carrying water.
Phoolbari Village has almost enough rainfall during the rainy season. So, rainwater harvesting system is one of the best alternative and nature friendly. As the village is at the ridge top and the sources are down in the bottoms, there is a problem in pumping the water up due to the frequent power cuts, non-perennial sources and other reasons.