Overcome water crisis from World

 

                      We don't want this!! (water crisis) :

   THE RAJASTHAN WATER CRISIS:

                        Rajasthan is a desert state in India with a geographical area equal to 10 percent of the country, but with only one percent of the country's water resources. The scarce and fragile water resources in this semi-arid environment are under threat from frequent droughts, increasing groundwater salinity and falling water tables.

   OVERVIEW:

                       To address the major water crisis in the desert state of Rajasthan India, the International Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, has launched a Desert Rainwater Harvesting initiative. This Rajasthan initiative will utilise traditional Rainwater Harvesting techniques in conjunction with community based watershed management plans to provide a sustainable model to be used in drought affected areas throughout the world.

 

The Rainwater Harvesting Solution:

                     The Desert Rainwater Harvesting Initiative is a grass roots project aimed at alleviating poverty and providing a reliable water supply to some of the most remote populations in rural Rajasthan, who have been in the grip of severe drought for the last decade. 

        A key outcome of the Initiative will be the formation of global partnerships and the establishment of an international centre to promote Rainwater Harvesting for desert and semi-arid regions of the world.

           The Desert Rainwater Harvesting Initiative was created in response to the ever increasing water crisis facing India's remote rural communities in Rajasthan and from direct requests from villages affected by a recent 4 year drought

          The Initiative aims to provide a year round supply of fresh water for rural communities in drought affected areas of Rajasthan where the Lead Partner has had a long standing presence and ongoing working relationship with the local villages.If only 1% or 2% of the rain that falls on India was captured, it would be sufficient to meet the drinking requirement of a billion people at a liberal 15 litres per person per day.

CURRENT USE:

• In China, Argentina and Brazil rooftop rainwater harvesting is being practised for providing drinking water, domestic water, water for livestock, water for small irrigation and a way to replenish groundwater levels. Gansu province in China and semi-arid north east Brazil have the largest rooftop rainwater harvesting projects ongoing.

• Thailand is the country where the largest fraction of the population in the rural area rely on rainwater harvesting (currently around 40%). Rainwater harvesting was promoted heavily by the government in the 1980's. In the 1990's, after government funding for the collection tanks ran out, the private sector stepped in and provided several million tanks to private households, many of which continue to be used until now.This is one of the largest example of self-supply of watet worldwide.

• In Bermuda, the law requires all new construction to include rainwater harvesting adequate for the residents.

• The U.S. Virgin Islands have a similar law.

• In Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, the houses of the Diola-people are frequently equipped with homebrew rainwater harvesters made from local, organic materials.

• In the Irrawaddy of Myanmar, the groundwater is saline and communities rely on mud-lined rainwater ponds to meet their drinking water needs throughout the dry season. Some of these ponds are centuries old and are treated with great reverence and respect.

• In the United States: until 2009 in Colorado, water rights laws almost completely restricted rainwater harvesting; a property owner who captured rainwater was deemed to be stealing it from those who have rights to take water from the watershed. Now, residential well owners that meet certain criteria may obtain a permit to install a rooftop precipitation collection system (SB 09-080).Up to 10 large scale pilot studies may also be permitted (HB 09-1129). The main factor in persuading the Colorado legislature to change the law was a 2007 study that found that in an average year, 97% of the precipitation that fell in Douglas County, in the southern suburbs of Denver, never reached a stream—it was used by plants or evaporated on the ground. In Colorado you cannot even drill a water well unless you have at least 35 acres (14 ha). In New Mexico, rainwater catchment is mandatory for new dwellings in Santa Fe.Texas offers a sales tax exemption on the purchase of rainwater harvesting equipment. Both Texas and Ohio allow the practice even for potable purposes. Oklahoma passed the Water for 2060 Act in 2012, to promote pilot projects for rainwater and graywater use among other water saving techniques.

• In Beijing, some housing societies are now adding rainwater in their main water sources after proper treatment.

• In Ireland, Professor Micheal Mcginley established a project to design a rainwater harvesting prototype in the Biosystems design Challenge Module at University College Dublin.

   

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