Water Security: Villagers adopt rainwater harvesting to access safe water

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Villagers adopt rainwater harvesting to access safe water

PATNA: As many as 5,000 rural households in Bihar's Khagaria district have adopted rainwater harvesting as an approach to access safe water during the on-going monsoon.

These communities are mostly from the flood prone areas (largely relief oriented) and have invested their own resources to access safe water.

Villagers residing in remote villages located in Chautham, Gogari Alauli blocks of Khagaria district have adopted rainwater harvesting, said Prem K Verma who is engaged in the campaign of rainwater harvesting in the district.

Pre-2005, this decentralized system to access safe water during monsoon/floods never existed in flood plains of north Bihar. This is an outcome of past six years of efforts made by an NGO "Megh Pyne Abhiyan" (MPA) (Cloud Water Campaign) in partnership with Samta, local voluntary organization in Khagaria to develop and promote alternative drinking water and sanitation systems for the entire year in the floods plains of north Bihar.
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