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From time immemorial, people have been managing rain. The availability of water and water sources determined where people would be able to live. Adequate rainfall decided on the quality of agriculture. Technical advances and finance may have enabled societies to inhabit big cities and expand agriculture into dry areas, but only because of the resource rain provided through the water cycle.
Due to population growth, pollution, and climate change, water scarcity will be one of the most critical problems all around the world in the next 15 years. Today, around 10% of the world’s population lacks a proper water supply service. Harvesting rainwater and using it for drinking, domestic, industrial, and agricultural uses will help to supply quality water to urban and rural populations.
Divided into four sections, basic concepts, narratives of RWH, programs implemented by diverse sectors of society, and notable cases, the book summarizes experiences from 14 different countries all around the globe, developed and developing countries, urban and rural areas. The subject of this book is related to the promotion of different international rainwater experiences that provides sustainable water services and climate resilience, including technical aspects and socio-cultural and policy affairs.
This book was written for all people interested in sustainable rainwater management. Students, people just starting in the subject, and experts will find this book interesting as it creates an overview of rainwater harvesting practice and technology all around the world.
We encourage all readers to read these stories and arguments at your leisure. Some many ideas and techniques can be picked up and applicable for serving the last 10% that is waiting for water security and proper water service.
About the Authors
Preface
Introduction
Section 1: Basic Concepts
The importance of rainwater catchment systems
J. A. Gleason Espíndola and Y. Corona Sánchez
Section 2: Narratives of RWH
Chapter 1
Rain: Water for health, livelihood and self-reliance
H. A. Heijnen
Chapter 2
Harvesting the potential
B. Kniffen
Chapter 3
Transforming tradition of rainwater harvesting
in Sri Lanka
T.N. Ariyananda
Chapter 4
Rainwater catchment on Hawai‘i Island
Patricia S. Macomber
Chapter 5
Mexican rainwater harvesting movement in recent years
J. A. Gleason Espíndola, Y. Corona Sánchez and
C. Casiano Flores
Chapter 6
Harvesting rainwater: An adaptation strategy for peace and the climate crisis
M. Pacheco
Section 3: Programs
Chapter 7
Social enterprise on sky water harvesting for solving drinking water crisis in coastal areas in Bangladesh
M. Murase
Chapter 8
Catalyzing the widespread adoption of rainwater harvesting in Mexico city
D. M. Vargas and E. Lomnitz
Chapter 9
Promotion of rainwater harvesting as a business
A. Kikundwa Birungi
Chapter 10
Experience in sustainable management of rainwater for multiple purposes: Case in ten villages, gossas district, Senegal
S. Souleymane
Chapter 11
Rainwater harvesting for improved food security and environmental conservation; Experiences from Malawi
Macpherson Nthara
Chapter 12
Challenges and opportunities in the implementation of rainwater barrels. An analysis of usability for the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, México
V. L. Díaz and G. E. Muñoz
Section 4: Notable Technical Cases
Chapter 13
The success story of multi-purpose rainwater management system at Star City, Korea: Design, climate change adaptation potential and philosophy
Mooyoung Han
Chapter 14
Developing a national rainwater harvesting standard
E. W. Bob Boulware
Chapter 15
Stormwater management in transition in Brussels-Capital Region
Catalina C. Dobre
Chapter 16
Smart rainwater management and its impacts on drought resilience by Rural Semi-Arid communities: a case study of Northeast Brazil
J. Gnadlinger
Chapter 17
Every drip counts: Confusion of cause with effect in the climate debate
M. Schmidt
Chapter 18
The Calabash Cistern 5000 L in Africa
P. Akkerman
Index
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