POTENTIAL OF ROOF RAIN WATER HARVESTING IN R. K. NAGAR SUB-URBAN AREA OF KOLHAPUR CITY, MAHARASHTRA

摘要

The problem of water is certainly acute & harsh. The availability of potable water in adequate quantity for the consumption has been one of the hot talks in the recent past. Moreover the requirements are increasing due to changing lifestyle of the people. The requirement of municipal water appears to be increasing fastly with increase in the density of population. A time has come to make available the water at local levels to reduce the cost of its transfer from great distance. Roof rain water harvesting is essentially one of such micro level attempt needs to be practiced. In view of this, present study aims to explore the potential of the rain water harvesting in R.K.Nagar a sub-urban area of Kolhapur city. For the collection of roof area intensive field trips were carried out. For the estimation of roof area for rain water harvesting Ikonos image has been employed. Whereas, Athwale's method has been adopted for calculating the potential of rain water harvesting. The analysis reveals that there is large water harvesting potential available in study area of which, only 11% is sufficient to mitigate the present need of the water of the study region.