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Rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas

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Title Rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas
 
Creator Eric Manzi
 
Contributor Sidhpuria, M.S.
 
Subject irrigation, precipitation, runoff, crops, mustard, chickpeas, surface water, harvesting, soil water content, land resources
 
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.
 
Date 2016-09-14T09:13:33Z
2016-09-14T09:13:33Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/76510
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU