Rainwater Runoff is the water which during the rains, drops on hard surfaces like roads, highways, cemented surfaces. This water either gets evaporated or washes down to the drains and eventually to the rivers, and ocean. So, to sum it up, it gets wasted.
If this water can be saved and put to Aquifers (Ground water), it can save the world from thirst, hunger and what not. It can have an incredible positive effect on mother earth and humanity. If implemented in a big way, we can have A Green Revolution.
On one side there are Floods due to excessive rain, and then we see that we are starving for water. Don’t we wish that there was some way to replenish those thirsty aquifers, which we are depleting at such fast pace, without caring for the future. If so, then we have to start working on some effective method to save that Gazillions of gallons of Rainwater Runoff, which gets wasted year after year.
Lots of cities, villages, and even the hill stations, are starved of clean water, even after good amount of rain fall. One main source of obtaining water is from the Aquifers in the ground. With the Urbanization, Industrialization and illegal boring, the Aquifers are constantly getting over-serviced. They are getting depleted of water year after year.
The idea is being discussed with the ‘Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, India for proper implementation, and then this method will be replicated anywhere in the world to save water.
Water Scarcity has become a huge problem for mankind. It is not just the cities, but rural areas as well are facing this issue in a much worse way. We hear the stories of Farmers committing suicides over not receiving enough water for their crops, in drought prone areas. Once the head of household is forced to take that step, the whole family is devastated. Moreover, they are limited to their land usage, because of acute shortage of water. They cannot use the full potential of their fields. Water is life, and it is pathetic that people have to walk miles every day to get drinking water as their wells have dried up due to insufficient rain and without the means of proper effective ways of Rainwater harvesting.