Name: 【TED】Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting (Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting)
Uploaded: 2017-12-11T21:48:47.000Z
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Adverbs of manner

For emotions, we should not move quickly to the desert.

So, first, a small housekeeping announcement:

So, welcome to the Golden Desert, Indian desert.

It receives the least rainfall in the country,

If you are well-versed with inches, nine inches,

The groundwater is 300 feet deep, 100 meters.

And in most parts it is saline, not fit for drinking.

So, you can't install hand pumps or dig wells,

though there is no electricity in most of the villages.

But suppose you use the green technology, solar pumps --

But we find 40 different names of clouds in this dialect used here.

There are a number of techniques to harvest rain.

It's called kunds; somewhere it is called [unclear].

The desert is there, sand dunes, some small field.

And the water will go where it should go.

because not a single drop should go waste in this.

They collect 100 thousand liters in one season.

Below the surface there is hard saline water.

But now you can have this for year round.

Because we are used to get written things.

These raised up platforms just like this stage.

there is a small pipe, and from their courtyard.

It can also harvest something like 25,000 in a good monsoon.

this is of course out of the hardcore desert area.

This is near Jaipur. This is called the Jaigarh Fort.

And it can collect six million gallons of rainwater in one season.

So, since 400 years it has been giving you

almost six million gallons of water per season.

You can calculate the price of that water.

It draws water from 15 kilometers of canals.

You can see a modern road, hardly 50 years old.

But this 400 year old canal, which draws water,

it is maintained for so many generations.

Of course if you want to go inside, the two doors are locked.

And the water level -- these are not empty canisters --

the color, the taste, the purity of this water.

And this is what they call Zero B type of water,

and then we come back to the traditional systems.

The government thought that this is a very

That's why I said that this is a commercial break.

Of course there are some areas where water is reaching,

I'm not saying that it is not reaching at all.

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【TED】Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting (Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting)

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