Traditional Rainwater Harvesting Structures

This bookcontains detailed information about the traditional rainwater structures. Harvestingrainwater is becoming as a practical adaptation strategy for urban areas thatare vulnerable to climate alteration. In the past, rainwater harvesting wasmore significant than it is today. Studies show that a variety of traditionaland age-old rainwater gathering techniques were created or put into use inreaction to earlier climate change incidents. According to history, both floodsand droughts were frequent occurrences in ancient India. Perhaps this explainswhy each region of the nation has its own traditional water gathering practicesthat are representative of the local physical and cultural diversity. All ofthese methods can be seen as a concept of harvesting rain whenever and whereverit falls.Water makesup 70.9 % of the Earth's surface, mainly in the form of oceans and seas. Wateris found in modest proportions as 1.7 % groundwater, 1.7 % glaciers and icecaps in Antarctica and Greenland, vapour, clouds (ice and liquid watersuspended in air), and 0.001% precipitation in the air. Evaporation,transpiration, evapo-transpiration, condensation, precipitation, rootabsorption, percolation, infiltration, base flow and runoff are processes that water goes throughon its way to the sea.