Anupam Mishra on traditional water harvesting methods in Rural India

Today, while I was just browsing through some videos in TED. One speaker who caught my attention is the eloquent Anupam Mishra. He is an environmental activist with focus on smart water harvesting methods across water challenged desert lands of India.

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An excerpt from the TED Website says

"Anupam Mishra travels across water-challenged India studying rainwater harvesting methods and learning from the people behind them. He presents his findings to NGOs, development agencies and environmental groups, pulling from centuries of indigenous wisdom that has found water for drinking and irrigation even in extremely arid landscapes through wells, filter ponds and other catchment systems.

A founding member of the Gandhi Peace Foundation, Mishra is working to bridge the gap between modern water management technology and india's heritage of water harvesting, so that every community is self-sustainable and efficiently safekeeping an increasingly scarce and precious resource."

In his TED talk , he cites some examples of how rural India has been using traditional water harvesting methods. 
 
               


Have you observed a similar kind of water harvesting technique in an unconventional way? If so it would be interesting to hear from you.