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Smart Water Harvesting

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Solving water crisis problem in India and around the globe through use of efficient and cheap technology for rainwater harvesting.

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Providing clean water for drinking and sanitation , thus reducing health risks...

While the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth - coupled with industrialization and urbanization - will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment. Millions of Indians currently lack access to clean drinking water, and the situation is only getting worse. India’s demand for water is growing at an alarming rate  putting increase strain on water resources as the number of people grows.

Though India has many rivers but most of them are coastal or are fed by the Himalayas. The people in the central and western region mainly depend on rainwater and groundwater. However due to unabated use, the level of groundwater has decreased significantly. The quality is worsening in many areas due to contamination with chemicals and many region have high arsenic and flouride content  which cause acute health problems. The only possible solution to this problem is by Rainwater Harvesting .

Most Indian homes dont employ rainwater harvesting or use the roof for other purposes rendering it unable to be used for harvesting. So our project aims not only at providing incentives to them to install rainwater harvesting but our innovation allows them to significantly increase the catchment area by adding our system of retractable folds during the rainfall. We expect that this system will increase the rainwater harvesting capacity of an average home by 75 to 100 % or even more depending on the surrounding available. We want to use sand filters aided with charcoal for decontamination of any pollutants that may be present in the rainwater which can be used by the entire community without depending on electricity for supply of clean water.


 

FIVE PROJECT QUESTIONS Required (60 - 90 minutes)

1. What is your innovation? 
Our innovation consists of providing additional area for rainwater harvesting increasing the amount of water substantially. We expect an increase of 75 % or even more depending on the size of the building that too at a low cost. Our equipment may also add to the aesthetic value of the building according to need. Moreover we will use filtering and sterilization techniques keeping in mind urban or rural user.
2. Who gains the most? 
The people gaining most from this will be those living in arid,semi arid area and those who have access to water but it is too polluted. . With our water harvesting system we expect to harvest additional 50000 ltrs of water for an average house enough for 3 months use if used prudently.It is expected that due to the crisis of water it will no longer be a free resource and one will have to pay a price or tax for its supply so an investment now will be lighter on the pocket in the future.
3. Who pays? 
Our aim is to develop a partnership between the community and the government for the installation of our water harvesting system through education and proper economic policies. The government can either subsidize the equipment keeping in view its positive impact on the environment or give relief to the people in form of the levy in the taxes they pay for housing and land. Though the person installing will bear majority of the cost but can save a lot in future and also have a free supply of water
4. What is your success? 
Our aim will be to start with a village with acute water crisis and to develop the water management over a period of two rainy seasons extending about 15 months. Then depending on the success in the area we evaluate the different short comings and possible interventions. We then propose to include the local administration to apply the same to the neighboring areas over a period of two to three years. And full scale implementation of the project in the state in 5 years.
5. How will you do it? 
First step will consist of motivating the people to adopt the system by educating them about the imminent water crisis and the benefit of water harvesting.The next step is collaborating with the local government to install the low cost system on a trial basis and assessing its success and short comings.Taking appropriate measures to counter the technical problems encountered the project will be implemented on the next level.We will also seek help of meteorology department to have data on rain.