STORMWATER HARVESTING

Stormwater Harvesting for Preserving Water

Stormwater Harvesting for Preserving Water

INTRODUCTION

Water being the natural resource is significant to the life. Most of the part of our body is made of water. People need water for every essential need of life, including cooking, drinking, running the industries and agricultural necessities (Chong, et.al. 2012). With its basic nature, it is taken for granted in the sense of its availability. However, this resource is going to face scarcity in its availability that will definitely be a troubled situation for the survival (McArdle, et.al. 2011). This scarcity needs to be taken seriously; therefore it requires utilizing the other resources of water in a way to be used for industrial and environmental purposes. This paper discusses the strategies and techniques for managing the water resources in current and future scenarios. The proposed strategy follows its implementation method, together with the potential threats or problems associated with it.

DISCUSSION

Rainwater or the storm water is the best resource of water to ensure the availability of water even in scarce time. The department of Water (DoW) has been conducting investigations for harvesting the storm water in both the portable and non-portable means (Chong, et.al. 2012). For this purpose, the system requires the implication of strategy to preserve this water for better use at the time of need (McArdle, et.al. 2011).

METHOD OF PRESERVING STORMWATER

Storm water is preserved for future utilization in numerous ways. Infiltrate rainfall or storm water is not preferred to funnelling into the drains of storm. Storm water is the collective form of water from the agricultural units, industrial sectors or the houses. This water reaches the ocean after passing through storm drains and the rivers. This water carries toxic substances and chemicals with it that creates pollution. Storm water is actually the rainwater that falls on the impervious surfaces of roofs, driveways, sidewalks, streets or the parking lots. These ways pollute the rainwater and transform it into storm water (Singh, et.al. 2012).

Figure 1 (Collection of Roof water)

Figure 2 (Collecting roof water)

It is required to reuse this storm water for meeting the demands of pure water with the ever-increasing population, but with purifying measures to the maximum possible level. Considering the strategies of storm water harvesting, main areas to focus is the land use and development (Singh, et.al. 2012). It requires the minimization of impervious surfaces for better applying the treatment methods on the collected water. This will require controlling the issues of traffic congestion and the desertion of inner located areas (Mitchell, et.al. 2007).

CURRENT APPROACHES TO PRESERVE WATER

Currently, water resources are being considered as the precious ones based on the increasing probability of water scarcity with increasing days. However, intensity is necessary in the efforts to better kick off the scarce days. Eliminating the impervious surfaces from the regional areas will assist in the transformation of water to wrong areas where it gets extremely polluted. Currently, water reservoirs and filling basins are in operating conditions that store the rain water, limiting it from approaching the sidewalks or ...