Water News: Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
Water News: Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.
Water News: Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
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Preamble:

Rain Water Harvesting is a method of collecting the rainwater in-situ and store for future utilization. Rain water for domestic and agricultural use is already widely used throughout the world. It is a method, which has been used since ancient times and is increasingly being accepted as a practical method of providing potable water in development projects throughout the world. It has wide application also in urban and peri- areas where the reliability and quality of piped water is increasingly being questioned.

Rainwater harvesting is important in every major town and city limits in this country, it is much more important in coastal cities, since what is not harvested runs off into the sea before we realize and gets wasted.
 

Rain Water Harvesting (RWH)

Rainwater is soft in nature, neutral in pH, free from salts, minerals, and other natural and man-made contaminants that cause staining, pipe corrosion or smell etc. In other words Rain water is a free source of nearly pure water. It can be used to supply potable (drinkable) water and non-potable water. For non-potable uses, like watering landscapes, it is ready for use as it falls from the sky. For potable uses, rain water must be treated to remove or kill disease organisms that may be present. 

RWH is the most economical and simple method of water conservation. RWH is ideal for urban areas where the built-up areas are high due to greater land use, which necessitates higher, treated water demand. In case of roof top water harvesting where the water is collected in storage tanks/ sumps after filtering, the water is available for use the moment it rains. In short, rainwater is relatively pure water and when it is added to the relatively poor quality of groundwater, the quality of that water will improve due to dilution. More the water be harvested, better will be the result.