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Rain Water Research Paper

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What is the problem you are addressing?Why do we care about the problem?What practical, scientific, theoretical or artistic gap is your research filling?
This document is about the management of water by rain water harvesting. This document is concern about water because water is the most important resource needed for survival of humanbeings. This document is based on analysis of depletion of rainfall . The rate of water depletion is so high that soon whole
Rajasthan will turn into desert . The problem of water depletion is also faced by many other Indian …show more content…

(e.g. analyzed 3 novels, completed a series of 5 oil paintings, interviewed 17 students)
I checked many methods for conserving water. I searched in envrionmental books and on internet and I found the rain water harvesting themost appropiate option for conserving water. I founded out that this method is not complicated it can be applied in every homes
RAIN WATER HARVESTING
Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and deposition of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off. Rainwater can be collected from rivers or roofs, and in many places thewater collected is redirected to a deep pit (well, shaft, or borehole), a reservoir with percolation, or collected fromdewor fogwith nets or other tools. Its uses includewater for gardens, livestock, irrigation, domestic use with proper treatment, and indoor heating for houses etc. The harvested water can also be used as drinking water, longer-term storage and for other purposes such as groundwater recharge.
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As a result of completing the above procedure, what did you …show more content…

Surface runoff harvesting
In urban area rainwater flows away as surface runoff. This runoff could be caught and used for recharging aquifers by adopting appropriate methods.
2. Roof Top rainwater harvesting
It is a system of catching rainwater where it falls. In rooftop harvesting, the roof becomes the catchments, and the rainwater is collected from the roof of the house/building. It can either be stored in a tank or diverted to artificial recharge system. Thismethod is less expensive and very effective and if implemented properly helps in augmenting the groundwater level of the area.
The system mainly constitutes of following sub components: s First flush is a device used to flush off the water received in first shower. The first shower of rains needs to be flushed-off to avoid contaminating storable/rechargeablewater by the probable contaminants of the atmosphere and the catchment roof. Itwill also help

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