Reviving Traditional Water Harvesting Structures in Rajasthan Partner NGO/institution: Sambhaav Date of commencement: November 2006 Expected Date of conclusion: October 2007 Summary The Traditional Water Harvesting Systems of Western Rajasthan is a whole science elaborated by the people of Rajasthan to translate their experience into practicality. For harvesting each of these types of waters, they engineered various structures.
Heavy rainfall over a period of 3 days resulted in severe floods in the region. Due to this a large number of water harvesting structures have been damaged or washed off. As a makeshift arrangement drinking water is made available to the people through tankers and is stored in PVC water tanks for usage. This however is not viable for a long duration. Moreover it has an adverse effect on health through water-borne diseases. Hence a plan to repair and construct traditional water harvesting systems is being implemented.
Why This Project? - To help revive and preserve the traditional and time-tested systems to conserve water.
Target group The poor households in the selected villages are the primary beneficiaries. Activities Planned: - Identifying traditional water harvesting structures that need repair.
- Building a relationship with new village level groups and encouraging them towards community building using this activity as a medium.
- Follow-up of work already done with the old village level groups.
- Carrying out repair work of structures that were damaged during the floods and proceeding with the ongoing work of construction of water structures in selected areas.
Project status: Ongoing
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