Question

List and explain any two advantages associated with water harvesting at community level.

Answer 1

The conservation of water is a very necessary step taken by the government and also by the people to save the water. There are many techniques that have been accepted for the storage of water and most important techniques are rain and ground water harvesting.

Complete answer:
To answer this question we should know about the water harvesting process. The water harvesting process includes the storage of water that is further used for the cultivation process and domestic process. As we all know that, water is a very essential and precious abiotic component of the ecosystem as we cannot imagine a day without water. Therefore, conservation of water is a very important criteria to save water for future and one of such processes include the rain water harvesting. The water harvesting is undertaken through; capturing of runoff of water from the rooftop, local catchments, seasonal flood water from the stream, and conserving water with the help of watershed management. In short, water harvesting is a process of collecting rain water.

Now, the rain water harvesting is the process of conserving rain water by collecting, storing, and purifying the water for further use. The rain water can be collected and stored directly into a tank or recharges into the groundwater.

The advantages of water harvesting at community level are; it provides protection from the runoff of the storm water. The water harvesting reduces the significant damage of the creeks, organisms caused during storm water runoff, and water habitat.
The increase in the underground water level increases the storage of groundwater that is important for supporting plant growth in case of adversity; this is another advantage of water harvesting.

Note: The groundwater conservation of water is undertaken with the help of a percolating tank. Percolating tank is an artificially prepared reservoir that is constructed across the stream that submerges the land with proper permeability to maintain the enough percolation to collect the surface water.