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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to the people to start a 100-day ‘Catch the Rain’ campaign to conserve water ahead of the summer. Addressing the country in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the Prime Minister said “this is the best time to think about water conservation in the summer months ahead”.

“Rain begins in many parts of India in May-June. Can we run a 100-day campaign to clear the water reservoirs to conserve water? Jal Shakti Ministry will soon begin a similar campaign ‘Catch the Rain’. The key mantra of the campaign is catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls,” the Prime Minister said.

National Water Mission : 

National Water Mission’s (NWM) campaign “Catch The Rain” with the tagline “Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls” is to nudge the states and stake-holders to create appropriate Rain Water Harvesting Structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata before monsoon.

Under this campaign, drives to make check dams, water harvesting pits, rooftop RWHS etc; removal of encroachments and de-silting of tanks to increase their storage capacity; removal of obstructions in the channels which bring water to them from the catchment areas etc; repairs to step-wells and using defunct bore-wells and unused wells to put water back to aquifers etc are to be taken up with the active participation of people.

To facilitate these activities, states have been requested to open “Rain Centers” in each district– in Collectorates/Municipalities or GP offices. During this period, these Rain Centres will have a dedicated mobile phone number and will be manned by an engineer or a person well trained in RWHS. This centre act as a technical guidance centre to all in the district as to how to catch the rain, as it falls, where it falls.

Efforts should be made so that all buildings in the district should have rooftop RWHS and that maximum quantity of rain water falling in any compound should be impounded within the compound itself. The basic aim should be that No or only limited will water to flow out of the compound. This will help in improving soil moisture and rasing ground water table. In urban areas it will reduce water gushing onto roads, damaging them and will prevent urban flooding.

We are NeeRain are committed to this cause of ” Catch the Rain ” that’s the reason we have pioneered a “No water loss” rainwater filter for a common man which is extremely economical, easy, effective and effecient to catch, filter, use or recharge rainwater.

 

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Connecting Sky with Earth in simple words is securing our Life with Water.  Connecting Sky with Earth in in other words is UseRain ! 

Using Rainwater is the most sensible step to mitigate effects of depleting groundwater. Rainwater that is delivered up to our roof needs our little attention. An effort that is extremely simple, quick and economical.  Connecting rooftop down water pipe with Neerain rainwater filter, tank and bore well. A day’s job, can be done on your own. One can do it with little bit of skill set.   

Five steps: 

  1. Cut the rainwater down pipe.
  2. Mark and drill four holes on wall.
  3. Fix the first flush valve with Tee joint. 
  4. Fix the filter inlet with rainwater pipe. 
  5. Connect the clean water outlet of filter with bore well.

Direct connection of roof with rainwater filter and borewell is the work of connecting Sky with Earth. In other words, we are connecting God father with Mother Earth…This way are completing the water cycle and life cycle.  

In most villages of India, the average supply of water is between 40 litres per capita per day (lpcd) to 55 lpcd (Average say 50 lpcd). This figure would come down considerably if we ensure that economical and effective rainwater filters are being made available to our rural households.  Not only they, will use rainwater water during Monsoon but excess water will be sent back to our groundwater bank.  Such simple step would result in saving of billions of litres of fresh and soft water.  

Five benefits:

  1. Prevention in depletion of groundwater
  2. Improvement in quality of groundwater
  3. Bore wells won’t run dry during peak summer
  4. No more water logging
  5. Pure and fresh water will result in healthy life of people. 

Get the benefit of Life by connecting Sky with Earth !

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Why Save Water?

They say one feels the importance of anything only after it is gone. The same is happening with us in case of water. We are not understanding the importance of water right now. We have been deceived by the availability of water at the touch of our finger, 24 x 7. We are being fooled into thinking that we have water available in abundance.
But what if I say that it is true!!! We do have lakhs of litres of fresh, pure and consumable water. You might be thinking I also got fooled into believing the lie.
Well, here we have again been misguided. Every year lakhs of litres of Rainwater falls on various surfaces like roofs, roads, agricultural lands etc. This pure form of water can be and should be harvested. Water is not our property to waste, but a gift given by mother nature to us. And what we are asking is to just give a return gift to nature.
Save the rain while we still have time.
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Why Save Water?

They say one feels the importance of anything only after it is gone. The same is happening with us in case of water. We are not understanding the importance of water right now. We have been deceived by the availability of water at the touch of our finger, 24 x 7. We are being fooled into thinking that we have water available in abundance.
But what if I say that it is true!!! We do have lakhs of litres of fresh, pure and consumable water. You might be thinking I also got fooled into believing the lie.
Well, here we have again been misguided. Every year lakhs of litres of Rainwater falls on various surfaces like roofs, roads, agricultural lands etc. This pure form of water can be and should be harvested. Water is not our property to waste, but a gift given by mother nature to us. And what we are asking is to just give a return gift to nature.
Save the rain while we still have time.
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Let's make this planet water positive

It is said in our national language - hindi "जल ही जीवन है ", meaning water is life. Water is the most precious element present on this planet. Let's try and create such a place for our future generations, where there is no water scarcity.
 
 
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Water - A Lifeline

Water is the most essential element for all living beings. Five elements- Earth, Water, Light, Air and Vaccum give us energy to live a healthy and happy life. 

Same way the well being of humanity, environment and the functioning of the economy depend upon the sensible conservation of these five elements. Problems related to water in modern context are increasing worldwide.

Water level in dug wells and bore wells is going down day by day. Our cities are on the verge of Zero day due to acute scarcity of water.

Women and Children have to walk miles to fetch clean water for daily requirement of cooking and drinking. This is a great concern for civilised society and for developing world.

In many parts of the world, lower income groups and poor families have to spend considerable amount of money from their daily wages just to buy water. It is even difficult for the government to address the issues related to water given the pace of Industrialisation and Urbanisation.

Ground water sources are depleting rapidly; surface water sources have got contaminated and these are our main sources of survival.

Water is a teacher, a healer, a mirror, a wonder, a hope, a charm and a essence of life.

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