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Which water saving methods have been used by watershed communities?

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Watershed communities have used hundreds of indigenous water saving methods to capture every trickle of water that falls on their land. Few of such methods are:
- digging small pits and lakes,
- putting simple watershed system, in proper places,
- building small earthen dams,
- constructing dykes,
-preparing sand and limestone reservoirs
- setting up rooftop water-collecting units.
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