{"id":8002,"date":"2019-07-13T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2019-07-13T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:07:29","slug":"how-to-save-water-the-old-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-to-save-water-the-old-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How to save water the old Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Recently, urged all Indians to take collective\naction to conserve water and requested to share traditional methods of water\nconservation. The following are few traditional methods of water conservation in\nIndia:<\/li><li>Naula (Uttarakhand): It is a naturally-occurring\nwater aquifer. It is a stone-lined tank which catches dripping water from\nsprings and streams. Sculptures of Lord Vishnu or any local deity are usually\ncarved onto the walls of the Naula to declare it a sacred site and prevent it\nfrom being polluted.<\/li><li>Tankas (Rajasthan): It is a cylindrical paved\nunderground pit into which rainwater from rooftops, courtyards or artificially\nprepared catchments flows.<\/li><li>Surangas (Kerala): It is basically a tunnel dug\nthrough a laterite hillock through which water seeps out and into the tunnel.<\/li><li>Ahar Pynes (Bihar): Ahars are reservoirs with\nembankments on three sides that are built at the end of diversion channels.\nPynes are artificial rivulets led off from rivers to collect water in the ahars\nfor irrigation in the dry months.<\/li><li>Panam Keni (Waynad, Kerala): Wooden cylinders\nare made by soaking the stems of toddy palms in water for a long time so that\nthe core rots away until only the hard outer layer remains. These cylinders, are\nthen immersed in groundwater springs located in fields and forests.<\/li><li>Zing (Ladakh): They are small tanks that collect\nmelting glacier water. A network of guiding channels brings water from the\nglacier to the tank.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, urged all Indians to take collective action to conserve water and requested to share traditional methods of water conservation. The following are few traditional methods of water conservation in India: Naula (Uttarakhand): It is a naturally-occurring water aquifer. It is a stone-lined tank which catches dripping water from springs and streams. Sculptures of Lord&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-to-save-water-the-old-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to save water the old Way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4553],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-traditional-water-conservation-methods","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773193,"cached_date":1704746921},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}