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| Kathmandu Monday April 08, 2002 Chaitra 26, 2058. |
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Rain harvesting
‘Kathmandu could go the Chennai way:
Collect rainwater and drink it’ (April 4, 2002, TKP) made an interesting reading.
This is something that my family and I often
did, albeit on a small scale, whilst living in Pokhara during the 1990s. During the
monsoons, the mains were often clogged by mud from the river feeding Pokhara, and I felt
it pointless letting the water run off the roof when we had no water. For so many nights,
I would spend an hour or so using buckets to collect water from the pipes draining the
water off the roof (as so often, these were not ‘plumbed’ into any drainage
system), and storing it in the roof water tank. The process of rain harvesting is probably
the most important way of saving water across the world, as well as in Nepal.
Andrew Bowdler
St. Nicholas Close, UK |
