LITERATURE REVIEWS

Rainwater harvesting is an yearlong ancient technique studied by many

scientist for different purposes e.g. for storing the harvested water in some
storage tank, impact of rainwater harvesting on social and economic
aspects and for recharging underground aquifer for increasing soil
moisture condition. A few of them has been listed.

Rural Rainwater Harvesting: Concept, Techniques, Social & Economical

Impacts by Dr. Osman Mohammed Naggar. This person has really
dedicated his work in finding out all the factors which affects the surface
runoff and rainwater harvesting impacts on environment.
Again, P.Sai Rukesh Reddy and A.K.Rastogi in their paper entitled
“Rainwater Harvesting in hostel 12 and hostel 13 of IIT Bombay” in 2008.
Kyoungjun Kim and Chulsang Yoo in their paper entitled “Hydrological
Modeling and Evaluation of Rainwater Harvesting Facilities: Case Study
on Several Rainwater Harvesting Facilities in Korea”(2009).
B. Helmreich and H. Horn also entitled on Rain water harvesting as
“Opportunities in rainwater harvesting” in 2008.

Keah-Ying Lim, Sunny C. Jiang in their paper entitled “Reevaluation of

health risk benchmark for sustainable water practice through risk analysis
of rooftop-harvested rainwater” in 2013.

Ju Young Lee et al. also entitled their paper “Comparison of the

microbiological and chemical characterization of harvested rainwater and
reservoir water as alternative water resources”(2009).

Again a very decent work was done by David J. Sample et al. in their
paper entitled “Evaluating the Dual Benefits of Rainwater Harvesting
Systems Using Reliability Analysis” in 2013.
 CONCLUSION
Rainwater harvesting is a technology used for collecting and storing
rainwater from rooftops, the land surface or rock catchments using simple
techniques such as jars and pots as well as more complex techniques such
as underground check dams. The techniques usually found in Asia and
Africa arise from practices employed by ancient civilizations within these
regions and still serve as a major source of drinking water supply in rural
areas. Commonly used systems are constructed of three principal
components; namely, the catchment area, the collection device, and the
conveyance system.