Rainwater Harvesting, the solution to water shortage !

It is disconcerting to hear that many parts of India are facing acute water shortage.

The solution to this problem is Rainwater Harvesting. All info can be had at www.rainwaterharvesting.org This is the offcial RWH site of Indian Govt. The Govt has started a lot of Centers for Science and Environment to combat this problem !

Percolation tanks should be built to store water, thus vitalising ground water resources. This stored water can be used for irrigation. ( also drinking by aquacleaning it ).

In my village, in Annakara, Trichur Dist, some unscrupulous elements stole sands from the paddy fields, with the result a big lake was formed in the paddy fields. Now people are fishing there ! This acted as a percolation tank and all wells have sufficient well water ! A negative act became positive !

There are some causative factors for the water shortage. Earlier the paddy fields, the wells and the tanks served as Nature's rainwater tanks and now people are destroying the paddy fields and concrete structure are replacing them. The wells are also destroyed, as well as the tanks. Rubber and Acacia are trees which absorb a lot of water and planting these trees also deplete water wealth. So this water shortage is more or less self-created and Rainwater Harvesting is the way out ! Without water, there is no Life !

Tree are being cut and shopping complexes and houses are rising where the trees were. Such acts only add to Global Warming. Temp in Kerala touched 43 degrees and she is going the way of Madras, where 45 degrees have been reported. In Chennai, rains are rare and she is very hot !

Rainwater is free. For water used for irrigation and drinking purposes we have to pay a price. In our farmhouse, we have to pay electricity charges for pumping water out from a well. For potable water also, we have to a pay water bill. On the other hand, rainwater is a free gift, bestowed by Nature !

By the true and beautiful penetrated
From Water was everything first created
Water doth everything still sustain
Ocean ! grant us thy endless strain ( Goethe )