I begin

I have been meaning to start blogging for ages and today's lazy afternoon is a perfectly good excuse. The next four days I am off surveying wyanad for a pilot study.What do Indians think of nature?I hope to chill and blog my journey.expect some nice photographs.
well I have this nice bit about rainwater harvesting in India by traditional means.
I have sourced this info from blogs,books and all manner of places.
I believe that since these are traditional methods there is no copy right.
so here goes-
A khadin, also called a dhora, is an ingenious construction designed to harvest surface runoff water for agriculture. Its main feature is a very long (100-300 m) earthen embankment built across the lower hill slopes below gravelly uplands. Sluices and spillways allow excess water to drain off. The khadin system is based on the principle of harvesting rainwater on farmland and subsequent use of this water-saturated land for crop production.
First designed by the Paliwal Brahmins of Jaiselmer, in the 15th century, this system has great similarity with the irrigation methods of the people of Ur (present Iraq) around 4500 BC and later of the Nabateans in the Middle East. A similar system was practiced 4,000 years ago in the Negev desert, and in southwestern Colorado 500 years ago.
I saw these kahadins in Jaiselmer when I went for a trip.

-From a old website that doesnot exist now!
Isnt that cool?