Accepted Papers - 3.pdf - UNESCO

National Seminar on Rainwater Harvesting and Water Management 11-12 Nov. 2006, Nagpur
66. New Drinking Water Resources with Fiber Plastic Bed Rainwater
Harvesting Plants to Solve Water Scarcity Problem
INTRODUCTION
Not only for human beings but for all living
beings the basic requirements are food, shelter and
clothing. A nation, that satisfies all these basic needs,
is a developed nation. But many countries are not
able to develop due to the scarcity of water and the
problems of flood.
Today, the water received through rain is stored
in dams, ponds, wells, lakes, rivers and also in the
form of underground water table. Water satisfies
all the needs such as agricultural, industrial and
drinking. But because of the red, brown, or milky
color of water in ponds and lakes, it is unfit for
drinking. Even though the ground water is colorless,
it may be tasty, tasteless or salty. Only in very few
places the groundwater is fit for drinking purpose.
Day by day, depletion of water level occurs because
huge quantity of water is sucked forth from
underground water table.
Besides lakes, wells, ponds and underground
water, water from dams are also used by a large
number of people for the purpose of drinking,
*Veerappan. J
Abstract
Today tremendous development has taken place in different disciplines such as
medicine, arts, literature, science, electricity, transport, computers and
telecommunications etc. But one of the major unsolved problems in many countries is
‘the water scarcity and flooding problem’. At this juncture, a Project is developed to
give solution to this water scarcity problem. In this project, each fiber plastic bed
plant can be extended to any extent and any type of land as required. So, through
these plants sufficient drinking water can be derived in small villages, big towns and
cities. This paper reports the constructed model of a Rainwater Collection Plant of
this project and its performance. This paper also reports multipurpose applications of
this project such as drinking, irrigation, as well as for benefit of animals. Finally, this
paper sums up that all living beings essentially require water for sustenance and to a
great extent this project would help in harnessing the enormous amount of rainwater
and thereby ensuring good storage of surface water and ground water perennially.
agricultural and industrial purposes. But these dams
do not have enough water to be supplied to the
regions which are far away from the dams. Also the
population near the dam area has increased rapidly
due to migration of people from water scarce regions.
Hence people belonging to dam region are not able
to meet their annual water requirements. A famous
Tamil Idiom says ‘Give only when you have excess’.
Thus people of dam region cannot supply water to
dry region even though they are very closer to them,
as they themselves do not have enough water. This
may be one of the reasons that the National River
Interlinking Project is delayed.
These water crises are partly solved in villages
of very low population with the help of Government
subsidiary funds through various beneficial projects.
(In India, ‘Swajaladhara’, ‘Rajiv Gandhi Drinking
Water Mission’, ‘Power pump scheme’, etc.) [1].
But the towns and big cities suffer due to severe
water shortage, as they are located far away from
the dams. In these places, water is not available
even for drinking, then how hospitals, agricultural
*Asst.Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K.L.N College of Engineering
(Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai), Pottapalayam, Tamil Nadu State- 630611, INDIA.
Phone No. 0452-2698971, Fax: 0452-2698280, E.mail:veerappanna@yahoo.co.in
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