Journal of the Association of Engineers, India

Chittaranjan Haldar ¹

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1 The Association of Engineers, IN

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The messages in the report by IWMI and the article above say that life on earth will not be possible after 2070 "SAVE SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND WATER AND USE RAINWATER" warnings are coming to us through Radio, TV and Mass Awareness Programmes like the ones organized by The Association of Engineers. India and other organizations, but we are not paying any attention. We are thinking that the water will last for ever. For hoodwinking these warnings our future generations will have to pay heavy price. Under the situation the Association has been exploring alternative to water crisis. And as result we made an humble attempt to find out Rainwater Endowment of the city of Salt Lake with a view to get an idea about the volume of rainwater available and what could be its possible uses.

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Presently the State is heavily dependent on surface and groundwater for supplying water to the citizen. Both the sources are attacked by pollution and overexploitation. Almost all the rivers or groundwater aquifer near a city are polluted. Pollution is reducing availability of clean water. The State subsidies water people squander it. State will soon run out of money for funding a new project to meet increased demand and for maintaining the plants already built. Supply of potable water will soon be not enough to meet the demand in future with population growth and increased urbanization. Rainfall plays important role on the availability of groundwater; it will remain unaffected by Climate change. Artificial recharge to groundwater by rooftop rainwater is considered to be a feasible solution to maintain the precious groundwater resource. Need of the hour is to make the people aware through different Mass Awareness Programmes on rooftop rainwater harvesting (RWH) and artificial recharge in the areas of urban and rural regions. The Association of Engineers, India built RWH structure in May, 2006 to harvest rainwater from rooftop catchment of its Training Centre to demonstrate it to the trainees and people about this. The Association also conduct Mass Awareness Programmes and training on these areas in many places in the city and in districts. Two-day/ one-day training programme on rooftop rainwater harvesting & artificial recharge, the first of it kinds in eastern India, is conducted regularly at the Training Centre of the Association.

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Rooftop, Catchment, Rainwater, Harvesting, Recharge Pit, Recharge Tube Well.

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