SLM Database

Small check dams made of stone, together with planting of trees, slow water flow and reduce further erosion in a gully, leading to its restoration.

• Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
• 08/13/2016 2:53 p.m.

A low cost and an easy activity for protecting agricultural lands, gardens and public infrastructure from the damages of flash flood.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 10/12/2015 3:42 p.m.

The technology promotes the lifting of river water by pump sets and conveys the water through buried pipelines to a canal. The conserved canal water is used for irrigation delivered by low lift pumps (LLP). Because water is held in the canal it revitalises the ecosystem along its length. Furthermore, …

• Compiler: Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib
• 06/27/2019 8:15 a.m.

The combination of pond sand filters (PSF) and raised pond embankments protect drinking water sources and increase the resilience to flood and tidal surge events in low-lying coastal areas.

• Compiler: John Brogan
• 08/22/2016 7:45 a.m.

Springshed revival through trenches and check dams is associated with a nature-based solution approach to reviving more than 20 springsheds. These were widened with the occasional construction of check dams to prevent rill erosion from the newly revived spring waters.

• Compiler: Karma Wangdi
• 07/14/2023 7:29 a.m.

The lake conservation initiative at Tali was conceived with the vision of protecting the lake and transforming the surrounding area into a community eco-tourism hub. The initiative is a testament to how science and spirituality, and culture and the environment can coexist and benefit from one another.

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 07/17/2023 8:44 a.m.

Water source protection involves protecting lakes, rivers, springs, or man-made reservoirs to avoid water pollution and damage by livestock and wild animals. In the past, the emphasis was on fencing and improving vegetation cover at the discharge point itself, but a recent focus is on groundwater recharge areas.

• Compiler: ONGPO LEPCHA
• 07/10/2023 1:58 p.m.

Defensivos flexibles y rústicos, se emplean para proteger terrenos de cultivo frente a amenazas de riadas y erosión lateral. esta conformada de rocas de gran diámetro con altura y espesor variable que puede ser complementada con plantación de árboles. Su resistencia y flexibilidad permite que no se deforme fácilmente ante …

• Compiler: Marco Loma
• 08/04/2016 5:38 p.m.

Water purification using macrophytes to treat effluent from fish farming.

• Compiler: Marianna Siegmund-Schultze
• 08/24/2015 1:47 p.m.

Permeable rock dams serve to restore seriously degraded farmland and forest/rangeland and are used to fill in gullies and control water flow.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 7:58 a.m.