PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, A KEY TO SUCCESS OF RAIN WATER HARVESTING - A CASE STUDY IN CHENNAI CITY

摘要

Any initiative involving the public in a mass scale will be successful only when the public themselves are consulted and are participating in every process. As the stakeholders, their involvement has been necessitated, in the recent times, in any water related initiative. This paper attempts to bring out the importance of public participation in the implementation of rain water harvesting. Government, though it represents the public, may not be in a position to deal with such water related issues out and out by itself. Understanding this, Tamil Nadu Government made rain water harvesting (RWH) as mandatory by the public. This paper focuses on public participation for RWH implementation in Padmavathi Nagar of Chennai City. A nondisquised structured questionnaire was prepared and the questionnaire survey was conducted at 38 households of the study area. Coding sheet was prepared and the information like awareness about RWH system, its purpose & its impact, willingness to conduct study and their opinion about RWH were studied. This will help to study the involvement of the public in implementing RWH system.