Introduction to Traditional Rainwater Harvesting Knowledge - RUVIVAL Toolbox
Channel: RUVIVAL
Date: 11/12/2018

This video introduces the viewer to Traditional Rainwater Harvesting Knowledge and is part of the Toolbox of the e-learning project RUVIVAL on the HOOU website: https://www.hoou.de/projects/traditional-rainwater-harvesting/pages/traditional-rainwater-harvesting-knowledge-video

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) refers to ecological knowledge and practices of indigenous and local cultures. Over centuries, people in diverse geographical positions relied on rainwater and developed indigenous knowledge and techniques to harvest rainwater. Traditional Rainwater Harvesting is a process that requires the concentration, collection and storage of rainwater for a number of purposes. Some examples of traditional rainwater harvesting include qanats, contour-bench terracing, spate irrigation, khuskhaba system, rooftop rainfall collection and cisterns.

RUVIVAL - Sustainable Rural Development and highly productive New Towns is concerned with restoring degraded areas and creating new not just inhabitable, but liveable spaces. It is an e-learning project of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in cooperation with the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU).

Traditional Rainwater Harvesting Knowledge by Sumbal Tasawwar and Ruth Schaldach https://youtu.be/99-QLqfvOzE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.