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Resources Tagged: Rainwater Harvesting

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  1. TN #70 Water Harvesting through Sand Dams

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    2011-01-01 A sand dam is a reinforced concrete wall built across a seasonal river to hold underground water in sand (see above photo of Nzaaya Muisyo sand dam, Eastern province, Kenya). It is initially built one meter high and up to 90 meters across. During the heavy and erratic seasonal rains, the water...
    Water Harvesting Sand Dam Rainwater Harvesting Water Storage Systems

  2. Water Harvesting: Guidelines to Good Practice

    2013-01-01 No page numbers, illustrated, photos
    Rainwater Harvesting Water Management

  3. Rainwater Harvesting for Domestic Use

    2006-01-01 This booklet explains how to collect, store and purify rainwater for direct use at household level. It is a practical guide to creating a rainwater harvesting infrastructure from design to implementation that is illustrated with picutres, tables and examples from RAIN's experience. 84 pages,...
    Rainwater Harvesting

  4. Rain Barrels

    Homeowner information about the use of rain barrels, how to set them up and where to obtain the barrels.
    Water Harvesting Rainwater Rainwater Harvesting

  5. Rainwater Harvesting

    Rainwater Harvesting Water Harvesting Water Storage Systems Sand Dam

  6. Rainwater harvesting practices for improving climate adaptation for farmers in Uganda

    2018-10-20 Poverty and food insecurity plague many countries in sub-Saharan Africa; this includes Uganda. To increase farmer’s adaptive capacity and to increase their resilience to climate change and variability, in situ rainwater harvesting technologies and practices were promoted in the greater Masaka...
    Rainwater Harvesting

  7. Water Harvesting: Guidelines to good practice

    2013-01-01 This new publicationon “Water Harvesting – Guidelines to Good Practice”was mandated by IFAD, prepared byWOCATin collaboration with MetaMeta and RAIN and funded by SDC and IFAD. Water security is a prerequisite to achieve food security.Water harvestingoffers under-exploited opportunities for the...
    Water Security Water Harvesting Dryland Farming Water Supply Sand Dam Microcatchment Terraces Rainwater Harvesting

  8. La collecte de l’eau: Directives pour de bonnes pratiques

    2013-01-01 Ces directives donnent une vue d’ensemble des bonnes pratiques éprouvées de collecte de l’eau dans le monde entier. Celles-ci constituent un guide de référence pratique tout en offrant un support et une expertise technique spécifique pour l’intégration des technologies de collecte de l’eau dans...
    Water Security Water Harvesting Dryland Farming Water Supply Sand Dam Microcatchment Terraces Rainwater Harvesting

  9. Water-harvesting principles & the story of an African rain farmer: Design guidelines for regenerative water and fertility management

    2016-11-17 “You must plant the rain before you plant a seed or tree!” proclaimed rain farmer Mr. Zephaniah Phiri Maseko of Zimbabwe. By doing just that, he and his family turned a wasteland into an oasis, raised groundwater and well levels even in dry years, reduced flooding in wet years, and enhanced the...
    Rainwater Harvesting Water Harvesting Regenerative Systems

  10. 2016 ECHO International Agriculture Conference Topic Summaries

    2017-01-16 This article summarizes several of the plenary sessions presented at the 2016 ECHO conference in Florida. If you were unable to attend the conference, or would like to review some of the talks, many of them can be viewed on ECHOcommunity. Other 2016 presentations that appear there include...
    Biogas Agroforestry Linguistics Rainwater Harvesting Dryland Farming