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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
(Fig 2). Fig. 2 Small-scale rainwater harvesting systems and uses (adapted from Gould and Nissen- ... livelihood approach promotes the use of runoff water also for productive purposes, such as small scale irrigation for domestic food production, watering small stock, watering tree nurseries, brick-making etc. For ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
Brief 59 Improving pond water - Brief 47 Latrine slabs and seats - Brief 45 Low-lift irrigation pumps - Brief 35 Maintaining handpumps - Brief 33 On-plot sanitation in urban areas - Brief ... surveying - Brief 50 Simple drilling methods - Brief 43 Small earth dams - Brief 48 Small-scale irrigation design - Brief 42 Surface water drainage - how evaluation can improve performance - Brief 57 Training - ...
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What is the Water Situation in the Rural Areas ?
The government has indeed invested heavily on water resources development, which focussed on large-scale irrigation development for increasing green revolution-style agriculture production and drinking water supply programmes. Yet, a ...
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Local Food Security : The Real Green Revolution
Canals do not reach everywhere, and - notoriously - salinise the soil in command areas. Irrigation pumps can only make the groundwater- ... crop regimes driven by market-based (and not people-based) demand-supply logic. Large-scale irrigation systems make sense only from the perspective of National Food Security (so-called). For ...
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WWF - Our solutions to the world's freshwater problems
Conservation agriculture instead of wasteful irrigation. Practices and technologies that work with ecological processes are proving beneficial in drier ... result in large increases in food produced, without the need for wasteful, large-scale irrigation schemes. Appreciation for rivers' natural riches instead of just their short-term economic ...
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Water Development, Extraction, and Diversion on the Colorado Plateau (page 1 of 6)
Bureau of Reclamation in 1974, diverts water from the Colorado River Basin to irrigation projects on the Wasatch Front. Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation. California supports a ... to: Page 2 - Presettlement Water Use Continued: Ancient Irrigation and Other Water Uses Page 3 - Mormon Settlement and the Dawn of Large-Scale Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau Page 4 - The Thirst of ...
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Earth and Space Foundation 1997 Awards
West Africa are potentially important ecosystems for the production of rice. Large-scale irrigation schemes in these flood plains are not feasible because of the high costs and uncertain ...
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ECNT » Current Campaigns » Land Clearing » How You Can Help
SEND AN EMAIL Highlight and copy the text below. Then click here to open an email, paste the copied text and press send. Dear Chief Minister, Proposals for large-scale irrigation schemes and clearing of forests and woodlands in the Daly River Basin are unsustainable and should never go ahead. I urge you to: • Stop any further large-scale treeclearing ...
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FAO/AGL - Contacts - Land and Water Development Division
Karen.Frenken@fao.org Garcés-Restrepo, Carlos (IPTRID Programme Manager) Water management with emphasis on the performance of irrigation and drainage systems; from small to large scale. Irrigation institutions specialist particularly in relation to Irrigation Management Transfer ...
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Environmental Restoration: Deep Pipe Irrigation
Native America Search Site Index Search the Site Deep Pipe Irrigation By David A. Bainbridge Associate Professor United States International ... covered with a cap or a screen disk. For large scale ecological restoration work we glue 1/8 inch galvanized ... much more efficient than surface drip or conventional surface irrigation. Deep pipe irrigation develops a much larger effective rooting volume and ...
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