rainwater harvesting

Costs

How much will it cost to catch rain?

When community come together to harvest rain, the per-capita investment goes down. For instance, Panchsheel Park Colony about 1000 residents pooled in Rs 4.5 lakh to harvest more than 170 million litres of water annually.

Who can do it for you

Read more: Who can do it for you

Laws and policy

Read more: Laws and policy

Best Practices

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Maintenance and monitoring

Maintenance- the following steps should be adopted to ensure quality of harvested rain water:

•     Keep all catchments neat and clean

 

•     Don’t allow contaminated water to flow into system

 

•     Put iron/nylon mesh/fine cloth on inlet and outlet pipes and chambers to prevent solid debris from getting into the system

 

Rainwater harvesting

 
 
Learn how to set up a rainwater harvesting system in your home, office, factory or city (read more: Doing RWH). or ask us for help if you still find it difficult.
 
 

How to do RWH?

Lakes in Courts: Cases on Protection of Lakes

Every Indian city, worth its salt, was known by its water body. In fact, localities were named after this wealth. It made the city, because, people understood the connection between these structures built to harvest rain and their drinking water.

Training Programme on Urban Rainwater Harvesting, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage (MWS&D), Sri Lanka and Colombo based NGO, Lanka Rainwater Harvesting Forum (LRWHF) organised a three day training programme in Colombo on ‘Urban Rainwater Harvesting’ for Srilankan government officials between 27th and 29th April, 2011.

Laws and Policy

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