Rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas
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Rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas
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Creator |
Eric Manzi
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Contributor |
Sidhpuria, M.S.
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Subject |
irrigation, precipitation, runoff, crops, mustard, chickpeas, surface water, harvesting, soil water content, land resources
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Description |
Water is becoming a scarce commodity in dryland areas, the demands of water increase day by day, rain water harvesting is a technique practiced in arid and semi arid regions based on runoff collection and storing to overcome the shortage of water. Therefore, this study about rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas was conducted at Dryland Research Farm, CCS HAU, Hisar. The major objectives of the study were to quantify water balance and runoff harvested to the farm pond, establishment of rainfall runoff relationship and determination of the effect of stored rainwater to mustard and chickpea crops. Daily rainfall, evaporation and change of water level in a pond were recorded to determine the seepage in a pond and runoff generated from the rooftop, fields and directly on the pond from June to August, 2013. The crop parameters also were recorded during crop growth season for irrigated and non-irrigated mustard and chickpea. The study revealed that a total of 1396.31 m 3 of runoff was generated during the study period from field, rooftop and directly rainfall on the pond and water use efficiency of mustard was higher than chickpea crop. |
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Date |
2016-09-14T09:13:33Z
2016-09-14T09:13:33Z 2013 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/76510
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Language |
en
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application/pdf
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CCSHAU
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