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questionnaire contains three major parts. The first<br />

contains general information regarding the residents<br />

personal details, No of persons in the family, area<br />

of the premises, soil details, awareness about RWH<br />

system and their willingness towards this survey.<br />

The second part contains water resources<br />

engineering which has water availability, water<br />

usage, quality of water and the sufficiency of the<br />

available water at their premises. The third part<br />

contains the details of the RWH systems like type<br />

of the system, features and their opinion about the<br />

RWH systems.<br />

The Questionnaire survey was conducted at<br />

Padmavathi Nagar. It was conducted in 38 houses<br />

out of which 23 residents accepted for taking water<br />

levels in every fortnight for conducting impact study.<br />

To derive the information, coding sheet was<br />

prepared and it was analysed.<br />

FINDINGS<br />

Awareness<br />

The residents were asked whether they are<br />

aware of RWH and its purpose. All respondents<br />

reported that they are aware of RWH and its purpose.<br />

With this response, certainly the purpose of<br />

implementing RWH will be achieved. Then<br />

awareness regarding all the structures like sump,<br />

source well, recharge well, percolation pit and<br />

recharge well cum bore pit were enquired. All<br />

respondents were aware of structures like sump &<br />

source well.<br />

The awareness was low for structures like<br />

Percolation pit & Recharge well cum Bore pit.<br />

Percentage of awareness about RWH structures in<br />

Padmavathi Nagar is presented in Table 1 and the<br />

graph is shown in Figure 2.<br />

All respondents were aware of structures like<br />

sump & source well.<br />

The awareness was low for structures like<br />

Percolation pit & Recharge well cum Bore pit.<br />

People may be educated by the different soil<br />

conditions and their suitability of different types of<br />

RWH structures in order to improve the efficiency.<br />

They were also asked whether they are aware of<br />

impact of RWH. All respondents are aware of impact<br />

of RWH. They were reported that RWH will<br />

Table 1 : Percentage of awareness about RWH Structures in Padmavathi Nagar<br />

Awarness in %<br />

No. Structure Awareness<br />

Percentage<br />

1 Sump 36 100<br />

2 Source well (Open well/bore well) 36 100<br />

3 Recharge well 35 97.22<br />

4 Percolation pit 25 69.44<br />

5 Recharge well cum Bore pit 20 55.55<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

40<br />

20<br />

0<br />

Sum p Source well Recharge w ell Percolation pit Recharge w ell cum Bore pit<br />

Figure. 2 Percentage of awareness about RWH Structures in Padmavathi Nagar<br />

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