Resources Tagged: Water Conservation

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  1. Water Harvesting At Household Level: Building a 10,000 liter HAFIR

    2014-03-06 The HAFIR is an underground reservoir designed for storing rain water.Hafirs are usually constructed where there is enough rainfall and where there is no underground water.It is usually big enough to cater for the needs of the villagers and their live-stock for a whole season.
    Water Conservation East Africa

  2. East African Farmers Look For Useful Solutions To Common Challenges

    2015-06-09 In January, twenty four farmers gathered in Mkonoo villiage near Arusha Tanzania. They came together in the home of a widow by the name of Kalainey Lobarani to learn more about water harvesting and kitchen gardening techniques. Like so many small-scale farmers around the world their main interest...
    Yard Gardens Water Conservation East Africa

  3. Ways of Water: Run-off, Irrigation and Drainage

    Key Resource 1992-03-01 Water is everywhere - its physics and chemistry, rain, evaporation, infiltration, underground, the intimate relationship between life and water, and other natural phenomena. Its effects and applications need to be understood: run-off, erosion, soil drainage and irrigation. These comprise the main...
    Soil Conservation Water Conservation

  4. Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting Systems

    Key Resource 1997-01-01 Thiscomprehensiveandwell-illustrated presentation of India’s ancient water-harvesting systems highlights their potential for contributing to contemporary India’s development, especially with regard to irrigation and drinking water supply. It explains how the water-harvesting systems used in rural...
    Water Supply Water Conservation

  5. Conservation Agriculture in Ethiopian Highlands

    2016-11-01 On average, crop yields under DER+ and TER+ increased by 30% and 16%, respectively, as compared to CT. Our study demonstrates that field water conservation tillage practices that incorporate CA principles are effectively increasing green water in the root zone available for crops. RCA systems...
    Water Conservation Conservation Agric... East Africa

  6. Integrating Soil & Water Conservation in CA

    2016-11-01 The session will discuss integrating conservation agriculture with soil and water conservation measures as well as other farming systems. Presenter:Neil Rowe Miller serves with Mennonite Central Committee as a technical advisor to conservation agriculture projects funded by the Canadian Food...
    Conservation Agric... Soil Conservation Water Conservation East Africa

  7. Opciones Donde el Agua Es Escasa:Capítulo 3 de Opciones para Los Agricultores de Pequeña Escala

    2017-01-20 Esta publicación es el Capítulo 3 de Opciones para los agricultores de pequeña escala es un libro lleno de opciones prácticas para aquellos que trabajan para ayudar a los agricultores a pequeña escala y jardineros urbanos en los trópicos y subtrópicos, muchos que luchan para producir suficiente...
    Water Filters Water Water Treatment Water Storage Systems Rainwater Harvesting Water Harvesting Water Conservation Water Security Water Pumps

  8. Burundi Soil and Water Conservation

    2014-10-20
    Soil Conservation Water Conservation East Africa

  9. Why We Need to Preserve Soil and Water Resources Worldwide and How it is Being Done

    2010-12-20
    Water Conservation Soil Conservation

  10. Tillage systems for soil and water conservation

    1984-06-01 FAO of the United Nations has as its objective to present the principles and practices of tillage systems for sustained food production and to create an awareness of the need to conserve the world's soil, water and energy resources for future generations.
    Tillage Cropping Systems Conservation Tillage Water Conservation Soil Conservation