Here is where rainwater harvesting assumes significance and where we have a tremendous opportunity to make this community entirely self-dependent. He paid a visit to our community and carried out an audit of our water management assets, including the various treatment plants, the water sources and the rainwater harvesting facilities. Taking an inventoryA systematic collation and documentation of all water assets including marking them clearly and computing their capabilities. An interesting point is that we also discovered a borewell which had been wrongly thought of as a rainwater harvesting pit. As you may be aware, while borewells present a simple way to extract water from the water tables, it is important to have a water harvesting mechanism to keep this flush.

Source: The Hindu August 18, 2017 11:26 UTC