10th
International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference
"Rainwater
International 2001"
Mannheim, Germany - September 2001
Section
1: Rainwater
Harvesting
in an Urban Context
Paper
1.8
Rainwater Harvesting in an Urban Context:Case Study of Bangalore City,
India
S. Vishwanath
Bangalore Rainwater Club
email: chitravishwanath@vsnl.com
Introduction
Rainwater harvesting has gained tremendous interest among academics,
institutions, media and lay people especially in the past few years all
over India. While rainwater harvesting has a broad generic description
in the rural context as water collected mainly for agriculture purpose
in dry land and tank irrigated area, rooftop rainwater harvesting has
a clearer definition as water collected from rooftops chiefly for domestic
consumption. In this paper rainwater harvesting refers to the process
of collecting, filtering and storing water for urban use. Collecting can
be from rooftops and also at urban micro-watershed level in lakes and
tanks Storing can however mean actual storage in tanks and sumps or recharging
groundwater either through open wells or deep bore wells.
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