Training Package for Rain Water Harvesting

Abstract

Water is the essential resource for sustaining life and environment. It serves in many ways to maintain life, health, vigour and social stability. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt the water management technology for utilizing the available resources. Rain water is the ultimate source of fresh water. Collecting rain water directly or recharging into the ground to improve ground water storage in the aquifer is called Rain Water Harvesting. In north western Rajasthan particularly in Bikaner district, the surface water and ground water are not sufficient even for drinking purpose. People have been depending on rain water harvesting structures in the form of small ponds (Nadis), reservoirs, underground tank (TANKA), Kund etc. All the traditional rain water harvesting systems are adopted by the people according to the specific needs and environment. The present study was conducted in two randomly selected villages (Nal Badi and Naurangdesar) in Bikaner panchayat samities with a sample size of 60 rural people.The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, training package consisting of variety of audio-visual aids like booklet, charts, flipbook, flash cards, posters, phad, folders and video programme were developed along with literature with the guidance of subject matter specialists. In second phase the developed training packages evaluated by experts and pre-tested with fifteen non-sample rural people. Data were collected through interviews. The schedule used for investigation was divided into four sections. First section included general information of the respondents, second section included sources of information, third section consisted of three steps; pre-trainning test exposure and post-trainning test and aimed at assessing the knowledge of respondents regarding rain water harvesting. Finally fourth step was to assess the constraints perceived by respondents in using rain water harvesting structure