| WESTERN COASTAL PLAINS Virdas Virdas are shallow wells dug in low depressions called jheels (tanks). They are found all over the Banni grasslands, a part of the Great Rann of Kutch in Gujarat ... |
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| ... receives 611 mm of rainfall on an average annually and the number of rainy days are as low as 20-30. (A rainy day is spe ... |
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| CAMPAIGN Water Asia 2000 Water empowers women POLICY Urban floods: are they inevitable? Small grants facility INITIATIVE Small efforts pay big dividends TECHNOLOGY Rebirth of rainwater in Texas Ashram has ashtray for water also The half-round PVC rainwater... |
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| NETWORKING Rainwater International Students sensitised Meeting the jal yodhas INITIATIVE Royal Water Crusader Power of PIL Brigadier's blue battle Water becomes women strength People show the way TECHNOLOGY Rainwater Purifier TR... |
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| What is drought? Droughts can be of three kinds:- (i) Meteorological drought: This happens when the actual rainfall in an area is significantly less than the climatological mean of that area... |
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| INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS Ahar Pynes This traditional floodwater harvesting system is indigenous to south Bihar. In south Bihar, the terrain has a marked slope -- 1 m per km -- from south to nort... |
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| EASTERN HIGHLANDS Katas / Mundas / Bandhas The katas, mundas and bandhas were the main irrigation sources in the ancient tribal kingdom of the Gonds (now in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh). Most... |
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| More of Contemporary Practices A look at some of the common practices adopted to harvest rain... Check dams A check dam is generally constructed on small streams and long gullies formed by the erosive... |
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| A Lesson There was a thirsty crow. It peered into an earthen pitcher. There was water at the bottom. "Dregs," it cawed alarmed. But it was thirsty. It began to drop pebbles into the pitcher. Drop... |
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| Kul Kuls are water channels found in precipitous mountain areas. These channels carry water from glaciers to villages in the Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh. Where the terrain is muddy, the kul is lined with rocks t... |
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