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to follow and practice these principles “religiously” in our development plans to stop loss of sustainable environment and to save the humanity. The principles to show respect to water are:A) Do not waste a single drop of water in house, factory and farm. B) Do not pollute the discharge -- apply principle of recycling and
reuse. Review the requirement, identify the excess consumption and make conscious efforts to elimnate this excess and to limit the
consumption to bare minimum. 4) Management of Water Resource a) Storage
Forests conserve rain water and atmospheric moisture. Do not destroy forests recklessly. They attract rains and reduce floods. Forests store a lot of water under the surface of forest cover. Hence introduce perpetual recycling for them. Implement simple projects to achieve a minimum sustainable growth of 2% in national forest coverage. Carbon-trading in International market is a right step towards it. Tanks : Have small-small tanks, ponds, johads, ashads and check-dams spread around all the villages/towns to meet their local needs. Resort to full scale rain water-harvesting in buildings. (It has been discovered that rain water harvesting in buildings had been a common phenomenon in Rajasthan. There, the availability of rain water was scarce. Mostly , a mere 100-150 mm rain was sufficient to provide year-long supply of water to the householders. Each and every house in the town had an under-ground tank to store the roof-top rain water. This water was used for drinking purpose and was sufficient for a year's
demand. Deep boring was not resorted to.) iii) Harvesting : Now, it must become mandatory for every urban
building to have water harvesting structure. The roof-water should be discharged in a covered 30-40' deep well/recharge pits. The pit can be filled with gravel to act as porous filter.
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