| 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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| Tankas Tankas (small tank) are underground tanks, found traditionally in most Bikaner houses. They are built in the main house or in the courtyard. They were circular holes made in the ground, lined wit... |
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| Harvesting System Broadly rainwater can be harvested for two purposes Storing rainwater for ready use in containers above or below ground Charged into the soil for withdrawal later (groundwater recha... |
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| THAR DESERT Kunds / Kundis A kund or kundi looks like an upturned cup nestling in a saucer. These structures harvest rainwater for drinking, and dot the sandier tracts of the Thar Desert in w... |
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| Anil Agarwal Anil Kumar Agarwal, the founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, spearheaded the Jal Swaraj campaign. His thoughts, ideas and opinions remain the driving force behind the m... |
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| A NEW BEGINNING By the people IN FOCUS Open letter to the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Khandwa,Catching every droplet The lost pond CAMPAIGN From the courtroom Face to face Destroy, then revive INITIATIVE Woman power Payi... |
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| The River Damodar The river Damodar is polluted with minerals, mine rejects and toxic effluents. Both its water and its sand are infested by coal dust and waste from industries that have sprun... |
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| Lessons learnt Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An appreciable shift, becaus... |
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