Client / Financial Support: Social Work and Research Centre

Duration: 16:30 minutes

Water scarcity is a fact of life in many parts of Western India. This scarcity is growing steadily worse as consumption increases in both cities and the countryside. It is now increasingly obvious that the government policy of installing hand-pumps and of providing water through water-tankers will be insufficient to deal with a crisis that can only worsen in the coming years.

In an attempt to provide a viable alternative to such stop-gap arrangements, the Social Work and Research Centre, Tilonia, Rajasthan, together with a number of associate organizations, has worked to revive traditional methods of rainwater harvesting. Individual or community tanks are being built in a number of villages in Central Rajasthan, with the objective of collecting and storing rain-water as and where it falls. In addition village water bodies are being deepened and water flows from catchment areas diverted, such that the amount of water available to the village community is maximized, and the run-off from the sparse rains kept to the bare minimum.

Boond Boond Se documents a number of instances of successful Rainwater Harvesting in Central Rajasthan.