Guidelines for filling Database form

 
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1. Water Harvesting
2. Water Transportation
3. Water Storage
4. Water Lifting
5. Water Distribution
6. Water Treatment
7. Water Drainage
8. Sewerage
9. Water Use
10. Rehabilitation and Development

• Introduction
• Basic Vocabulary
• Roof-top and courtyard water harvesting system
• Surface runoff water harvesting system

• Wadi floodwater harvesting system
• River floodwater  harvesting system
• Groundwater harvesting system
• Humidity harvesting system
• Snow water harvesting

• Dew
• Air Moisture
• Snowmelt water
• Spring water
• Water from Artesian wells
• Water from Deep wells
• Floodwater

11. Water Harvesting
12. Water Transportation
13. Water Storage
14. Water Lifting
15. Water Distribution
16. Water Treatment
17. Water Drainage
18. Sewerage
19. Water Use

• Climate. Mean, seasonal, and monthly rainfall, evaporation, temperature and other climatic parameters related to extreme events, cloud cover, inter-annual variability, and dust storms.
• Catchment: area, extent, distance from extraction area, ration of catchment area to extraction area, the impact of historical processes on the parameters that influence the recharge of groundwater and surface runoff and stream flow (e.g., degradation of vegetation cover, droughts and other climatic factors, digging deep wells, other modes of water abstraction, pollution).
• Aquifer: area, volume, bedrock, recharges rates, water quality, and potential extraction rates.
• Surface hydrology: surface runoff, surface storage, subsurface storage, infiltration, evaporation, channeled runoff, rivers, lakes, springs.
• Landscape:
• Geology, geomorphology and pedology: Relief, topography, superficial deposits, bedrock, geological structure, karst features, soils (soil processes, erosion, weathering, transportation).
• Natural vegetation and wildlife: types, spatial distribution, pattern, density, condition, resilience (succession, resilience seasonality, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, frost, soil conditions).
• Cultural landscape: farmland, pastures, urban areas, industry, recreational activities (farming, pastoralism, urbanization, industry, recreation, population growth, migration, economic conditions, belief systems, knowledge systems).

• Ideological and social parameters, such as Ideology, ethics, rights and legal issues:
• Motivation, risk-taking attitudes, psychological factors, and expectations;
• Social organization;
• Governance and policies;
• Population: Size, distribution, density, growth rates, composition, emigration, labor force, dependency ratio);
• Knowledge-base and education;
• Communication: modes and efficiency;
• Consumption patterns; and
• Historical and architectural values. This refers both to tangible and intangible aspects of traditional water systems, e.g., architecture, tools, songs, stories, spatial layout, time-keeping. The values include appreciation of aesthetics of landscape, waterworks or tools, religious values and symbolic significance, as well as social institutions and traditions cemented by certain water management strategies.

• Subsistence and economics:
•  This mainly refers to the balance of income to expenses. The viability of the system is based on a long-term continuity in producing enough income to meet the expenses of maintaining the system and providing enough income to meet the needs of the community, and at best surplus resources to invest in improvements of the systems and or living conditions, including education and capacity building. Capital may bee needed at times to restore the system or for overhauling the economic structure. This may have to be secured through government or international subsidies, loans, and grants. It may involve the private sector and new economic practices (e.g., eco-tourism). Economic development in a sustainable scenario must not be at the expense of the integrity and viability of the social and ecological components of the system. It should enhance rather than destroy or undermine the historical/architectural heritage of the region. Some of the factors involved here are subsistence activities, craft industries, ownership, trade and exchanges, financial institutions, capital, pricing, and patterns of economic transactions, transport, and labor force.

• Energy and technology:
• Some of the parameters involved here are:
• Type of energy: human, draft animals, fossil fuels, electricity, etc.;
• Rates of consumption and availability;
• Environmental impact;
• Water-lifting devices;
• Water-transport and storage systems;
• Water treatment, recycling and purification systems;
• Tools;
• Materials;
• Techniques and skills;
• Training; and
• Innovations and development.