Resources Tagged: Water Supply
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2019-01-01 How to find and prepare safe drinking water - anywhere, any time! Clean drinking water may be the last thing we think about day to day - but it's the first thing we need in an emergency. Now, survival expert and biologist Joe Vogel explains how to find, treat, and store safe drinking water- even...
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2004-01-01 The purpose of this guide is to help farming communities in the sudano-sahelian zone to finance, install and manage waterpoints for thir village herds. The guide is written particularly for extensionists working in livestock water projects in this zone. It outlines in detail a method being used...
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The first part of the guide looks at what land leveling is and why it is needed. The second part deals with how land leveling is actually done and the practices needed with a precision land leveling program. The third section investigates resources needed to develop and implement the program....
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This book takes a step back looking at the 'way' we think rather than 'what' we think about water. The first part of the book is really examining the process of innovative thinking needed to escape from the traditional water conflickts. The second part redefines the water crisis showing how...
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2003-01-01 Many local initiatives have been started, and these are beginning to change the way we think about and use water. However, these ideas need to spread. This is the objective of this book, which brings together information on local action in water management, including activities undertaken by...
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Vanishing Land and Water is about soil and water management in arid lands. In the Sahelian region of Africa, as in many other arid regions, arable land is vanishing due to erosion and a decrease in available water. A group of artisans and villagers in one area of the Sahel are winnng the struggle...
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Based on a case study of water management in the Kirindi Oya Irrigation and Settlement Project (KOISP) in southern Sri Lanka, this report describes the constraints in seasonal scheduling of water allocations from relatively small reservoirs that were not designed to carry storage from one season...
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1988-01-01 Appropriate technology, self-help, waste utilization, development of one's own raw materials, people's participation, learning on the job, employment of women, children and unemployed youth in particular, is the keynote of the book to relieve povery, hunger and the burden of living. In...
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In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most...
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The following pages are dedicated to water. The discussions of water-related issues are much broader, however, than the substance itself.