ABSTRACT

Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but alsonatural leakage'-90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use. Water harvesting is a low-cost, easy-to-use, environmentally-friendly way to recover a large part of this lost water. How does water harvesting work? Which sites or areas are

chapter 2|20 pages

Hydrological aspects of water harvesting

chapter 3|42 pages

Methods and techniques in water harvesting

chapter 4|14 pages

Runoff inducement methods

chapter 7|26 pages

Storage of harvested water

chapter 9|20 pages

Socioeconomic issues