A few years ago, it would take only a couple of hours of heavy rain for water to stagnate around the house. Implementation of a simple rain water harvesting idea suggested by my friend, who is an engineer and contractor and has been looking after all construction-related activities in my house. We had done this installation before installing an RWH structure was made compulsory. With the passing of the order by the government, our neighbours also started installing RWH structures in their houses and, with this, our open well filled up. The top was kept open thereby enabling the collected water to percolate down to the earth.

Source: The Hindu November 24, 2017 12:00 UTC