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Rainwater management [1]

Rainwater harvesting is an age-old practice in India. It is a process of collection of runoff from treated or untreated land surfaces/catchments or rooftops and storing it in an open farm pond or closed water tanks/ reservoirs or in situ moisture strorage in the soil itself.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Suraj Bhan [2]
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation [3]
8
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42
Tags:
Water Resources [4], Groundwater Recharge [5], Water Conservation [6], Water Harvesting [7], Water Harvesting Techniques [8], Rainfall [9]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall