SLM Database

Compacted soil bund constructed following a contour using a soil excavated from deep trenches on the up-slope side.

• Compiler: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/10/2012 7:48 p.m.

The protection of water resources is essential for the supply of drinking water in the rural zones of Haiti, by enabling to preserve the water quality and facilitate the recharge of the resource. Organizing the actors related to the water resource and to the economic, environmental and communal challenges is …

• Compiler: Antoine Kocher
• 09/21/2016 10:40 p.m.

Dugout pond is a sunken water harvesting structure constructed along the rills in upper catchment for the purpose of storage of runoff and recharge of ground water.

• Compiler: Mulchand Kag
• 06/02/2011 9:05 p.m.

Runoff management pit in the gully with provision of waterway for excess runoff water.

• Compiler: SATYANARAYANA SAHU
• 06/05/2011 2:22 p.m.

Le système de khtarat ou khatarat, au Maroc, est constitué d’un tunnel horizontal et de puits verticaux. Le tunnel horizontal, creusé dans la montagne permet d’atteindre une source souterraine et d’en amener les eaux par gravitation vers l’extérieur. Les puits verticaux creusés le long du tunnel horizontal servent à l’aération …

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 10/06/2017 10:25 a.m.

Water from source is collected in a reservoir tank ( RVT) of volume 13000 Ltr and then distributed to each household for Single Use. Traditionally, the system was constructed to serve a single purpose-drinking (hence the name "Single Use" water system). However, due to increasing demand and need to meet …

• Compiler: Jhuna Kattel
• 07/09/2019 7:02 a.m.

Water from source in hill top is collected in a small reservoir (to preserve natural source), then passes onto a Reservoir Tank (RVT) / Ferro-Cement Tank / "Ghaito" for drinking water with a capacity of 4000L. When the RVT gets filled, water overflows, is collected in another concrete irrigation pond …

• Compiler: Jhuna Kattel
• 07/06/2019 9:28 a.m.

Submerged drains are drains installed in grassland on peatsoils with the aims to decrease soil subsidence and emission of CO2 and N2O due to the oxidation of peat soil, and to maintain suitable groundwater levels in fields for grassland production and grazing.

• Compiler: Simone Verzandvoort
• 10/30/2015 12:29 p.m.

The purpose of this water harvesting technology is to capture, collect and distribute sub-surface water. First, an infiltration gallery is developed, which allows the percolation and collection of sub-surface water through perforated pipes at a depth of approximately 3-4.5 metres. Sub-surface water is filtered by gravel/sand underground and infiltrates into …

• Compiler: Eveline Studer
• 08/11/2016 11:16 a.m.

Технология использование экосанитарные туалеты состоит в том, что протцесс выполнение туалета идёт с раздельным сбором урины и фекалий и их последующимиспользованием в качестве удобрений. Практика внедрения и работы экосанитарных (или «сухих») туалетов показала их важное значение врешении проблемы загрязнения человеком окружающей среды на бытовом уровне.

• Compiler: MIZROBSHO AMIRBEKOV
• 05/17/2018 12:13 p.m.