What is water harvesting? Explain the traditional water harvesting system with a suitable diagram. Write about the techniques of water harvesting.

Hint— Draw ray diagrams indicating the direction of incident, refracted and emergent rays and explain.

The traditional systems of water harvesting/management in different region are different. The system of water harvesting in our region are ponds, pits, lakes and other reservoirs where rainwater is stored.

The traditional system of water harvesting/management in our legion are ponds, pits and lakes where rainwater is stored.

Traditional methods of rainwater harvesting like ‘the rooftop method’ are becoming popular in India. In Gendathur village, Mysore, about 200 households have adopted the rooftop rainwater harvesting method, thereby making...

(i) Keeping into view the disadvantages and rising resistance against the multipurpose dams, water harvesting is considered viable alternative both socioeconomically and environmentally.  (ii) For example, Rainwater harvesting is the most...

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(i) In hilly and mountainous regions, people build diversion channels like 'gul' or 'kul' in Western Himalaya for agriculture. (ii) Roof-top rainwater harvesting was commonly practised to store drinking water, particularly...

(i) In semi-arid and arid regions of Rajasthan, almost all the houses traditionally had underground tanks for storing drinking water. They are an extremely reliable source of drinking water when other...

Roof top water harvesting is important in Rajasthan because: (i) It was commonly practised to store drinking water. (ii) The rainwater can be stored in the tanks till the next rainfall,...

Methods of rainwater harvesting used in India are: (i) Guls and Kuls : People built guls and kuls in hilly and mountainous regions to divert water. These are simple channels. They...