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Water programme:

Introduction
Shree Sidh Shaki Peeth Shanidham Peethadeshwar Shree Shree 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj i.e. Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj has been actively involved in organizing rural and tribal communities to assert their rights of equality, health, food and secured livelihood and a respectful place in the society.

VISION OF PARAMHANS DAATI JI MAHARAJ: In the service of mankind- building equitable, democratic and environmentally sustainable society.

MISSION: Striving for sustainable development processes and improvement in the quality of life of vulnerable people like tribal, women and children through their organization and capacity building efforts.

INSIGHT OF PARAMHANS DAATI JI MAHARAJ: Building capacity and confidence among local people is more important than building heavy equipments. Consultation, coordination and collaboration form the backbone:

Consultation with local people in the first instance and throughout the life cycle of any initiative to understand their perspectives, desires and needs, and to develop solutions that incorporate their ideas.


Co-ordination among government, aid agencies donors and businesses in moving from a mindset of aiding to one of empowering local communities.


Collaboration among all community, regional, national and international stakeholders to agree priorities, synchronise efforts and maximize impact. Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj has established a network aimed at promoting water conservation, tree plantation and female foeticide.

Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj says,’ Water is life, save life!’

Water is one of the nature’s most important gifts to mankind. Its essential for life. A person’s survival depends on water. Water is one of the most essential element of good health. Water is key a key component in determining quality of our lives. Today, Although water covers more than 70% of the earth, only 1% if the earth’s water is available as a source of drinking. Yet our society continues to contaminate and waste this preci


ous resource...

Water conservation:

A step to conserve water is the step to secure future. The most essential among all the natural resources on earth is water. A drop of water is worth more than a sack of gold for the thirsty man. If each one of us make efforts to save water today, it will save us later. Water conservation is the most effective and environmentally sound method to fight global warming. Water conservation is what can reduce scarcity of water. It aims to improve the efficiency of use of water, and reduce losses and waste.

TIPS TO SAVE WATER:

Avoid leakage of water from the taps.


Turn off the tap when not in use especially when you brush your teeth or wash clothes.


Rain water harvesting is another method to conserve water.


The water supply should be limited in those areas which enjoys the unlimited water supplies.


Check the leakage of water in toilets.


Educate the mind of the people in the rural areas to save the water.


Promote conservation of water through media and wall posters.


Never throw the water unnecessary on roads which can be used for gardening and cleaning.


Avoid unnecessary flushing in toilets.


Use minimum amount of water to bath.


Water waste restrictions.


Improvement in the water distribution system.


Don’t leave the running while washing dishes in the kitchen.


Install small shower heads to reduce flow of water.


VISION OF PARAMHANS DAATI JI MAHARAJ: In the service of mankind- building equitable, democratic and environmentally sustainable society.

MISSION: Striving for sustainable development processes and improvement in the quality of life of vulnerable people like tribal, women and children through their organization and capacity building efforts.

INSIGHT OF PARAMHANS DAATI JI MAHARAJ: Building capacity and confidence among local people is more important than building heavy equipments. Consultation, coordination and collaboration form the backbone:

Consultation with local people in the first instance and throughout the life cycle of any initiative to understand their perspectives, desires and needs, and to develop solutions that incorporate their ideas.


Co-ordination among government, aid agencies donors and businesses in moving from a mindset of aiding to one of empowering local communities.


Collaboration among all community, regional, national and international stakeholders to agree priorities, synchronise efforts and maximize impact. Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj has established a network aimed at promoting water conservation, tree plantation and female foeticide.

Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj says,’ Water is life, save life!’

Water is one of the nature’s most important gifts to mankind. Its essential for life. A person’s survival depends on water. Water is one of the most essential element of good health. Water is key a key component in determining quality of our lives. Today, Although water covers more than 70% of the earth, only 1% if the earth’s water is available as a source of drinking. Yet our society continues to contaminate and waste this preci


ous resource...

Water conservation:

A step to conserve water is the step to secure future. The most essential among all the natural resources on earth is water. A drop of water is worth more than a sack of gold for the thirsty man. If each one of us make efforts to save water today, it will save us later. Water conservation is the most effective and environmentally sound method to fight global warming. Water conservation is what can reduce scarcity of water. It aims to improve the efficiency of use of water, and reduce losses and waste.

TIPS TO SAVE WATER:

Avoid leakage of water from the taps.


Turn off the tap when not in use especially when you brush your teeth or wash clothes.


Rain water harvesting is another method to conserve water.


The water supply should be limited in those areas which enjoys the unlimited water supplies.


Check the leakage of water in toilets.


Educate the mind of the people in the rural areas to save the water.


Promote conservation of water through media and wall posters.


Never throw the water unnecessary on roads which can be used for gardening and cleaning.


Avoid unnecessary flushing in toilets.


Use minimum amount of water to bath.


Water waste restrictions.


Improvement in the water distribution system.


Don’t leave the running while washing dishes in the kitchen.


Install small shower heads to reduce flow of water.


Benefits to conserve water:

Environmental benefits include eco system and habitat protection.


Water conservation helps in improving the quality of drinking water.


If you save water it can save your money bills.

Technical methods to conserve water:

Rain water harvesting


Historical water bodies

Ponds

Eco parks


Rain Water Harvesting

Rain water harvesting techniques to augment ground water Fresh water is scarce

Of the total water on earth, only 3% constitutes freshwater. Rest is saline water in the oceans.


11% of the total freshwater on earth is groundwater available upto a depth of 800m which can be extracted for use.


Mindless extraction and over exploitation of very small quantity of this precious nature resource has caused a rapid depletion and deterioration in its quantity and quality both.

Methods and techniques for ground water recharge

Urban Areas


Roof Top Rain Water / run off harvesting through


Recharge Pit


Recharge Trench


Tubewell


Rural Areas


Rain Water Harvesting through


Gully Plug


Contour Bund


Gabion Structure


Percolation tank


Check Dam/ Cement Plug/ Nala Bund


Recharge shaft


Underground dam


Dugwell Recharge



Ground water recharge in Rural areas

In rural areas, rain water harvesting is taken up considering watershed as a unit. Surface spreading techniques are common since space for such systems is available in plenty and quantity of recharged water is also large. Following techniques may be adopted to save water going waste through slopes, rivers, rivulets and drain line

Gully plug

Gully plugs are built using local stones, clay and bushes across small gullies and streams running down the hill slopes carrying drainage to tiny catchments during rainy season.


Gully Plugs help in conservation of soil and moisture. The sites for gully plugs may be chosen whenever there is a local break in slope to permit accumulation of adequate water behind the bunds.


Contour bund

Contour bunds are effective methods to conserve soil moisture in watershed for long duration.


These are suitable in low rain fall areas where monsoon run off can be impounded by constructing bunds on the sloping ground all along the contour of equal elevation.


Flowing water is intercepted before it attains the erosive velocity by keeping suitable spacing between bunds.

Spacing between two contour bunds depends on the slope, the area and the permeability of the soil. Lesser the permeability of soil, the close should be spacing of bunds.

Contour bunding is suitable on lands with moderate slopes without involving terracing.


Gabion structure

This is a kind of check dam commonly constructed across small streams to conserve stream flows with practically no submergence beyond stream course.


A small bund across the stream is made by putting locally available boulders in a mesh of steel wires and anchored to the stream banks.


The height of such structures is around 0.5 m and is normally used in the streams with width of less than 10 m.


The excess water over flows this structure storing some water to serve as source of recharge. The silt content of stream water in due course is deposited in the interstices of the boulders. With the growth of vegetation, the bund becomes quite impermeable and helps in retaining surface water run off for sufficient time after rains to recharge the ground water body.


Ground water recharge in urban areas


In urban areas, rain water available from roof tops of buildings, paved and unpaved areas goes waste. This water can be recharged to aquifer and can be utilized gainfully at the time of need. The rain water harvesting system needs to be designed in a way that it does not occupy large space for collection and recharge system. A few techniques of roof top rain water harvesting in urban areas are described below.


Percolaiton Tank


Percolation tank is an actually created surface water body, submerging in its reservoir a highly permeable land, so that surface runoff is made to percolate and recharge the ground water storage.


Percolation tank should be constructed preferably on second to third order streams, located on highly weathered rocks, which have lateral continuity down stream.


The recharge area down stream should have sufficient number of wells and cultivable land to benefit from the augmented ground designed for storage capacity of 0.1m to 0.5 MCM. It is necessary to design the tank to provide a ponded water column generally between 3and 4.5m.


The percolation tanks are mostly earthen dams with masonry structure only for spillway. The purpose of the percolation tanks is to recharge the ground water storage and hence steepage below the seat of the bed is permissible. For dams upto 4.5 m in height, cut off trenches are not necessary and keying and benching between the dam seat and the natural ground is sufficient.


Check dams/ Nala bunds:

Check dams are constructed across small streams having gentle slope. The site selected should have sufficient thickness of permeable bed or weathered formation to facilitate recharge of stored water within short span of time.


The water stored in these constructed structures is mostly confined to stream course and the height is normally less than 2m and excess water is allowed to flow over the wall. In order to avoid scouring from excess run off, water cushions are provided at downstream side.

Clay filled cement bags arranged as a wall are also being successfully used as a barrier across small nalas


Historical Water Bodies:

There are many traditional water bodies which have been in disuse for the longer time. These bodies can be reused as the recharging points.


Village Ponds:


Steps should be taken to avoid dumping of sewage into the village ponds. Efforts need to be made to deepen these ponds with the dragline machines. Garbage and other waste methods should not be dumped into the ponds. The original purpose of village ponds was to give sustainability to adjacent wells and for cattle drinking, bathing, etc. As village are absorbed into urban areas with increasing reliance on tube wells, the ponds are becoming cesspools. These ponds can function as storage reservoirs and recharge areas subsequent to desiltation and improvement of their water quality. Following are some recommendations:

No sewage should be diverted to ponds in order to maintain their water quality.

o garbage dumping should be permitted.

Technique of improvement of water quality using aquatic plants and fishes can be introduced. It increasing BOD value of water.


Eco Parks:

This involves the creation of artificial wetlands using aquatic plant root zone system to treat sewage waters upto tertiary levels for recycling to the irrigation and horticultural sector and possibly some industrial estates.


The system utilizes the roots of certain types of plants to provide sub-strates for the growth of bacteria, which utilizes the nutrients present in the effluents, and for the transfer of oxygen. The plants commonly employed are duckweed, water hyacinth, pennwort, etc. The plants have to be harvested regularly and about 20% to 25% plants should be removed at each harvest. These plants have a root system of rhizomes, containing thick hollow air passages, from which fine hair roots hang down. This root zone can support a very large population of aerobic microorganism, Bacteria, dominate the microbial population, which is expected to degrade most of the simpler organic materials i.e. those contributing to BOD. The fungi and actinomycetes, although fewer in number, have a wider range of hydrolytic activities and are expected to degrade many of the large molecules that contribute to the COD.


The waste water encounters alternate aerobic and anaerobic microbial population which convert carbonaceous and to lesser extent nitrogenous and phosphatic, contaminants in the water to less polluting materials. Further microorganisms can form biofilms around lower stems, which can then trap particles suspended in the wastewater by absorption.


It is expected to achieve an effluent quality of 5-10 mg/l of suspended solids.


Goals Of Water Program By Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj


In urban areas, rain water available from roof tops of buildings, paved and unpaved areas goes waste. This water can be recharged to aquifer and can be utilized gainfully at the time of need. The rain water harvesting system needs to be designed in a way that it does not occupy large space for collection and recharge system. A few techniques of roof top rain water harvesting in urban areas are described below.


Imparting timely information regarding leakages, bursting of pipelines to Jal Board and eliciting quick response to ensure effective and efficient functioning of the water distribution system to all levels.


Educating all citizens of rural areas regarding water conservation methods and techniques to bring about greater water efficiency and thus bring about an effective increase in supply of filtered water.


Inculcating an awareness of the rapid depletion of ground water level and the need to harvest rainwater through simple rain water harvesting structures.


Components Of Water Program


Water Wardens And Asstt. Water Wardens:

It is proposed to nominate about 500 water wardens and 150 asstt. Water wardens ( one each from school students young and old age group). These wardens shall be imparted training to make them conversant with Jal Board water supply systems and methods of conservation of water including saving that can be affected in day to day household uses. The selection of the water wardens will be made from young and old age group habitant of rural areas whereas Asstt. Water warden will be nominated from schools and colleges.


Responsibilities of Water Wardens/ Asstt. Wardens:


Watch for leakages, bursting of water lines/ faulty water devices etc.

Passing on of information regarding leakages etc. to Jal Board control rooms/ concerned officials at the earliest.

To ensure rectification of the reported matters.


Bring about awareness of water conservation measures in all spheres of activity.

Disseminate information regarding depletion of ground level and its consequences.

To provide technical assistance to citizens desirous of implementing simpler and effective rain water harvesting techniques and methods.


Membership incentives for water wardens/ Asst.- water wardens:

The services of efficient dedicated water wardens will duly acknowledged by way of award of water savior certificates, publicity through media etc. scheme of attractive gifts may also be considered in case of highly deserving individuals.


For the young Asstt. Water wardens quiz/ essay competitions will be held on a regular basis.


Water Van:


Water van is an educational ourtreach program offered by PARAMHANS DAATI JI MAHARAJ. The contents of presentations will specifically designed to coordinate with all citizens and students of rural and tribal area. Young and old age group people will be encouraged to supply information and assist the presenters during interactive presentation. Various models will be displayed on:


Water cycle


Our use of water

Weather conditions

Water conservation

The importance of wetlands

Adaptation and classification of some native wetlands plants and animals.


Activities Carried By Network Of Shani Dham Trust Under The Guidelines Of Paramhans Daati Ji Maharaj

On World water day and other occasions like during onset of monsoon rallies are taken out to arouse enthusiasm and education among rural communities. Van of Shani Dham Trust visits to nearby villages of Pali Distt. Rajasthan e.g. Roopawas, Chopra, Ragura, Beerawas, Kanhawas, Bhatinda, Lolawas, Gagura, Ghangarwas, Naya Gaonv etc. to inculcate awareness about water conservation and rain Harvestation among poor communities.


Educational programs like skits, display of boards, distribution of banners, display of models, promotion of rain water harvesting and recharge of wells are conducted by team of social workers of Shani Dham Trust.




The feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort of conserving water!

Time to act!

Our earth, our habitat, our home!

Our earth, our future, save it!

Save water!

Water Is Precious

Use It Wisely!