Roof rain water harvesting Akash Ganga (Rajasthan, India)

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overview:
sector:Water
stimulus:Drought
impacts:Urban water supply decrease
Akash Ganga is an innovative roofwater harvesting system that channels rooftop rainwater from every house in a community through gutters and pipes to a network of underground reservoirs with large enough capacity to store a year of drinking water. It depends on community partnership or social enterprise to provide drinking water to the people by renting roofs from home owners or acquiring rights t [...]
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project classification:
project type: building / installing structure
project status: implementation running
running time: 4 years
spatial scale: local
effect emergence: immediate
effect persistence: between 1 and 10 years
 
project costs:
total costs: 200000 usd
initial investment: not specified
maintenance costs: not specified
problem solving capacity and reversibility:
problem solving coverage: high
reversibility: low
responsibilities:
initiating agent: Dr BP Agrawal, Sustainable Innovations SI (Organisation)
executing agent: PRI, SI and local community
funding source: Multiple: World Bank,
additional information:
not specified
evaluative information:
success factors: community willingness, technological support, accessing roof right

limiting factors: financial and technical support, households not willing to give out roof on rent

synergies to mitigation: none

no regret / win-win option: no regret:
the system provides drinking water during dry months especially for poor families

project evaluation: Till date the AG system has helped 10,000 villagers gain access to clean water. Mr Agrawal is building a public-private-community partnership to provide potable water to 250,000 people by 2012.Six villages have benefited through the project

contact information:
BP Agrawal, Sustainable Innovations
Teoco, 4th Floor. 12150 Monument Drive, Fairfax, VA 22033
tel.: 703 582 3956
email: bp@sustainableinnovations.us
information source:
1) http://web.mit.edu/invent/pdf/agrawal-fact-sheet.pdf; 2)http://www.sustainableinnovations.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=62