Rainwater harvesting for the management of agricultural droughts in the foothills of northern India

Spatial assessment of conjunctive water harvesting potential in watershed systems

“…Although water-harvesting has been practiced in different parts of the world for thousands of years (Bruins et al, 1986), it has predominantly been used in dry areas to collect and supplement scarce water resources (Lavee et al, 1997). Past research on harvesting of rain water has been reported for several tropical countries (Ngigi et al, 2005a,b;Handia et al, 2003;Kronen, 1994;Carter and Miller, 1991;Verma and Sarma, 1990;Grewal et al, 1989;Ray, 1986). Rain water remains relatively inexpensive in many dry regions of Asia, Africa, and America and often is the only available source of water for agricultural purposes (Bruins et al, 1986).…”

Participatory Model Calibration for Improving Resource Management Systems: Case Study of Rainwater Harvesting in an Indian Village

“…Since the 1960s, RWH systems have been successfully implemented in arid and semiarid areas of Israel, the southwestern United States, and Australia. Its practice has spread subsequently to other parts of the world such as: South Africa (Woyessa et al, 2007), China (Deng et al, 2006), and India (Grewal et al, 1989;Kumar et al, 2006).…”

Application of Watershed-Based Tank System Model for Rainwater Harvesting and Irrigation in India

“…Some tank systems have been evaluated previously by different researchers (Grewal et al 1989, Sur et al1999, Guerra et al 1990and Mugabe et al2003 . These studies indicated that evaluation of the existing tank system in the watershed helps to understand its performance and the individual water balance components and system indicators like catchment-storage-command ratios.…”