Rain Water Harvesting - Growing awareness towards saving environment

Rain Water Harvesting has been in practice in the developed world from a decade. India, though a slow starter always, is catching up fast with this concept.
With a diversified climate due to large geographical extents, a big part of India (specially Northern states which are away from sea) is always short of water due to scanty and uncertain rains. Agriculture is the worst hit sector due to this. Level of ground water which used to be a reliable source of water for irrigation and for urban use also, is decreasing alarmingly.
Rain Water Harvesting provides one of the solutions to this threat. Excess rain water is collected in a big tank and fed to the ground through bore-well pipes. Yes, its as simple as that. Just a little change in planning and architecture of a new or a existing house can do wonders. Water clogging due to excess rain water is prevented.
You can visit rainwaterharvesting.org
for more information on planning and economics of rain water harvesting.