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The management and distribution of water has been centralized. People are much dependent on government system, which has collapsed the tradition of water harvesting system and has resulted in disruption of community participation in water management. As the crisis of water continues to be increasing day by day, direct reformation is being required in water management system. In this present scenario scientific and technological studies must be carried out for assessing the present status for suggesting the suitable mitigation measures (1). The urban regions are being paved and built, resulting in reduction of groundwater recharge area. Consequently, large amount of good quality water that rains over the cities is withdrawn from recharge as it is directed into the municipal drainage system. Moreover, in extreme rain events the drainage systems may be over-flooded which may lead to ecologic and economic hazards. This work reviews the history of rain water harvesting and discusses the impact of rain water harvesting in modern-urban environments on the hydrological system. Two types of rain water harvesting methods are being discussed and compared with the help of Land Use and Land Cover classification (LU/LC). LU/LC of telephone colony has been done., that indicates the rain water harvesting may increase the direct infiltration and can contribute to the ground water recharge .Water management and rainwater harvesting are increasing their prominence with the alarming growth in population and urbanization as well as severity in droughts (2). Land use and land cover leads to mitigating climate change which includes a forestation and modification of city building and organization and changing agricultural management practices to increase carbon in soil and to accelerate removal of carbon from the atmosphere.