Water Harvesting - pressure of water scarcity around the world
Being a critical and perpetual natural resource, water is essential for the health of every species on Earth, socio-economic prosperity of a country, food production, and environment. Many countries are facing severe pressure of water scarcity around the world. On the other side, changing demographic patterns, socio-economic development, technological innovation and environmental degradation, especially climate change, are responsible for creating an acute water shortage for human life (Wu et al. 2020). In such a situation, it has been found that technological solutions like rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse and desalination can reduce the problem to some extent, also in countries with modest economical means. Poddar International College, a leading top science college in Jaipur is working on a “Water and Sanitation Project” in which blocks of major districts of Rajasthan are covered. The term ‘water harvesting’ generally refers to the collection of rainstorm-generated run...