SLM Database

Biofilters or “bioreactors” connected to agricultural tile drains are relatively inexpensive and space-saving measures with considerable potential to improve the quality of drainage water.

• Compiler: Antonín Zajíček
• 05/06/2022 2:37 p.m.

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• Compiler: Raul Galeas
• 09/10/2018 11:29 p.m.

Tecnología ancestral que tienen como objetivo principal la acumulación de humedad en la arena estancada por el dique. La humedad acumulada se infiltra y da paso a la formación de ojos de agua en la época de verano.

• Compiler: Pablo Caza
• 11/20/2017 6:13 p.m.

Spate irrigation is a traditional water diversion and spreading technology.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 10/08/2010 11:05 a.m.

A waterway is an artficial drainage channel constructed along the steepest slope to receive runoff from cutoff drains and graded structures and drain to the natural waterway safely.

• Compiler: Berhanu Fentaw
• 06/02/2011 3:30 p.m.

Soil bund and Fanya Juu constructed along the contour lines in microwatershed to conserve soil moisture and control erosion.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 06/02/2011 2:35 p.m.

It is a stone wall built across a gully at a given interval to trap moisture and sediment for crop production.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 1:25 p.m.

A structural measure constructed by stone/soil/wood acrross the gully to control erosion and create favourble condition for crop cultivation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 9:44 p.m.

It is a raised wall constructed across a stream/gully using stone, concrete and/or gabion for dual purpose, namely, to pond/store the stream flow behind it for irrigation purpose while at the same time reducing the runoff velocity and enhancing gully rehabilitation.

• Compiler: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/11/2012 4:13 p.m.

It is a barrier of stone/wood/earth placed across a gully to control runoff and sediment passing through.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 3:02 p.m.