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Lining geomembrane plastic for water harvesting and storage is a rainwater harvesting technique used by land users to collect rain water or runoff from a concave watershed to a common well-structured plastic-lined pond for agricultural, domestic and other use.

• Compiler: Iwona Piechowiak
• 12/25/2012 7:25 a.m.

Infrastructure de stockage pour la mobilisation et la valorisation des eaux de ruissellement

• Compiler: Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye
• 04/14/2011 11:39 a.m.

La technologie consiste à mettre en place un ouvrage de retenue de la langue salée pour éviter l'intrusion du sel dans les rizières

• Compiler: Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye
• 04/15/2011 1:22 p.m.

La technologie consiste à mettre en place une retenue d'eau pour limiter la perte de couche arable par ruissellement et pour favoriser la recharge de la nappe phréatique.

• Compiler: Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye
• 04/14/2011 5:21 p.m.

Retention ponds (e.g. flood storage reservoirs, shallow impoundments) are water bodies, storing water to attenuate surface runoff during rainfall events. They provide storage as well as improving water quality. Retention ponds may also be used for irrigation of farmland.

• Compiler: Gregor Kramberger
• 06/22/2021 11:34 a.m.

Construction of earth dams to provide stock water

• Compiler: Jannie Nel
• 01/19/2011 4:22 p.m.

The restoration of the thicket biome in the Eastern Cape is assisted by planting ‘spekboom’ (elephant bush) (Portulacaria afra), an indigenous succulent plant within contour lines/riplines on degraded hillslopes. The increased vegetation cover reduces runoff and soil loss.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 04/06/2018 11:47 a.m.

Semi-circular ponds are depressions constructed in the soil to harvest water, reduce runoff, increase infiltration, break soil sealing and crusting, capture organic material and seed where sheet erosion is predominant in degraded, low gradient hillslopes. The opening of the semi-circular pond is up-slope for runoff water to flow into the …

• Compiler: Lehman Lindeque
• 07/06/2020 8:45 p.m.

In-field water harvesting technique

• Compiler: Cobus Botha
• 02/03/2011 7:31 p.m.

Old motor tyres and/or vegetation along contours.

• Compiler: Andrei Rozanov
• 12/31/2010 6:54 p.m.