Worldwide rainwater harvesting potential: South Korea leads the way

摘要

The potential for developing regions to leap ahead in water affairs, by-passing the exposed shortcomings of centralized western systems, is never more obvious than in the matter of rainwater harvesting (RWH). Tirelessly promoted for a decade by its principal global proponent, Professor Mooyoung Han of Seoul National University, South Korea, RWH is now taking off to some scale in that country and is achieving recognition elsewhere in Asia and in Africa. The Korean experience, first brought to the attention of Water21 readers through a description of the Star City development in Seoul (December 2008,pl7-18) did indeed, as then predicted, provide the impetus for more general resort to RWH in other South Korean cities.