1-Urban Water Management - Demand and Supply - Water Conservation Through Rain Water Harvesting.

Abstract

Due to rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, many of the metropolitan and bigger cities in the country are experiencing acute water shortage, especially during summer months, and depletion of available fresh water resources resulting in problems like declining water levels, failures of tube wells, deterioration in ground water quality, saline water intrusion etc. To overcome such problems, it is essential to conserve every drop of rainwater that falls in such cities, and examine the potential of storing rainwater into the underlying sub-surface porous formations to meet the ever increasing needs of the cities and towns.