Water Harvesting
Water Harvesting
Water Harvesting
2. Community level
3. Ecological level
• Increase in water demand
• More dependence on ground water use
• Over exploitation of ground water
• Reduction in open soil surface area
• Increase in run-off ,decline in well yields and fall in
water levels
It a process by which the ground water reservoir is augmented
at a rate exceeding the natural conditions
Surface water is inadequate so we have to depend on ground
water
Any man-made scheme or facility that adds water to an
aquifer is considered as an artificial recharge system
• Storage of rainwater on surface for future use
• Recharge to ground water
• The structures used for this technique are
1) Pits
2) Trenches
3) Dug wells
4) Hand pumps
5) Recharge wells
6) Recharge shaft
Water spreading