Water is the most essential for our healthy, hygienic and comfortable living. But it is in short supply in most towns and cities of India. So, how can a city or town dweller get access to the water that he needs both in quality and quantity? This book seeks to give the answers. It tells you in simple language, free of jargon, all that you need to know about water.
How, with only a modest outlay, you can harvest the rainwater that falls over your house and garden and get not only good water for drinking and cooking, but water for your other needs also?
How can you purify more than half of the water you have used, through a simple, self-sustaining soil process in your premises without employing any chemical or power, and have it for your use again.
How do you locate the right spot in your premises to dig a borewell?
How can you influence its construction so that you can charge it with rainwater efficiently?
What is potable water? Is mineral water the same as bottled water?
How does one decide that the water available during traveling is safe for drinking?
What can one do if the water from one’s well or bore well becomes yellow on storage and soils clothes washed in it?
How can one tackle the problem of water stagnating on the road in front of one’s home after the rains and in the process get more water for one’s own use?
If your town does not have a sewerage system, how do you dispose off your sewage hygienically without contaminating your water resources?
What is desalination? How relevant is Reverse Osmosis to you?
Why does sweet water in sandy coastal areas turn saline?
These and many other questions that you may have confronted with are answered. The first of its kind, this book is a one-stop source of information and practical guidance for every town and city dweller who would like to have more water for himself and his family, reduce dependence on external sources, and live comfortably. It gives you details of a versatile system of storage and distribution of water that enables apartment complexes to store and distribute even three different qualities of water, for appropriate uses. It gives you practical methods for using available water more efficiently so that the water available to you lasts that much longer.
