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Describe how modern adaptations of traditional rain-water harvesting methods are being carried out to conserve and store water.

Rain harvesting means capturing when rain it falls. It is done to met the increasing demand of water as also to recharge the ground water.People living in urban areas have realized the importance of traditional rain water harvesting methods like the rooftop storing method.The level of underground water in most of the urban areas has gone down much because of the increasing population,industrialisation etc.
    In Gendathur village ,Mysore,about 200 households have adopted the rooftop rainwater harvesting method,thereby making village rich in rainwater . The Tamil Nadu government has made it compulsory for all the houses to have rooftop rainwater harvesting structures.


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