Abstract :

In this era of ever increasing water demands and rapidly depleting water resources coupled with overpopulation, it has become necessary to develop the means to conserve the water resources which are necessary for future requirements. In addition to this, it is also important that technology to conserve these water resources should be easily adoptable and economically viable.
This paper presents one case study where large amount of rainwater is tried to conserve. Ambedkar Nagar is a small locality situated near KIT’s college of Engineering, Kolhapur. Under Social Forestry Department, some measures have been adopted to conserve the water resources, but it has been found that a large quantity of water runs off in smaller durations without entering in the ground. This results not only in water loss but also soil loss on large scale. Hence it is planned to take such measures which will direct this extra runoff to ground water storage. These measures will be adopted by local people and also will be economically viable
The most significant feature of the project is that if such technologies are developed and adopted at larger scale in different areas, it will prevent such areas from water supply by tankers. Moreover this will also help us to tackle the issue of flood which mainly occurs due to excess runoff. Thus the project can be of great importance from view point of economic losses due to shortage of water as well as excess water ie flooding.