Describe Any Three Traditional Methods of Rainwater Harvesting Adopted in Different Parts of India.
- In hilly and mountainous regions, people build diversion channels like ‘gul’ or ‘kul’ in Western Himalaya for agriculture.
- Roof-top rainwater harvesting was commonly practised to store drinking water particularly in Rajasthan.
- In West Bengal, people develop inundation channels to irrigate their fields.
- In semi-arid regions agricultural fields are converted into rainfed storage structures that allowed the water to stand and moist the soil