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Harnessing Trees’ Transpiration Water for Ensuring Water Security in Semi-Arid Tropics: An Innovative Approach

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Title Harnessing Trees’ Transpiration Water for Ensuring Water Security in Semi-Arid Tropics: An Innovative Approach
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Creator Kumar R
Kumar M
Sanwal CS
Dobhal S
 
Subject Transpiration
Trees
Water Harvesting
Survival
Scarcity
 
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Vegetation water transpiration is one of the important physiological phenomenons and approximately 99-99.50% of total water absorbed by plants is transpired into the atmosphere. As plants transpire large quantity of water absorbed from the soil, and this water is subsequently recycled to land in the form of rain. But the uncertainty and unequal distribution of rainfall throughout the globe led researcher to explore alternate source of water. Hence, an innovative research was conducted to harness transpiration water from different trees in the semi-arid region of Gujarat state of India. This technique was executed by using improvised plastic material to harness transpiration water from five tree species namely; Azadiractha indica, Prosopis cineraria, Syzygium cumini, Eucalyptus hybrid and Achras sapota. Our results showed that the highest amount of transpirational water per branch was harvested from Azadiractha indica, followed by Eucalyptus hybrid, Syzygium cumini, Prosopis cineraria, and minimum from Achras sapota, respectively. Although this transpiration water harnessing technique was experimented at small scale, yet the result obtained was quite impressive. Once this technique becomes successful at large scale then surely global water scarcity problem can be resolved to some extent, especially during the difficult times of mankind survival in drought prone areas.
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Date 2019-10-23T09:17:52Z
2019-10-23T09:17:52Z
1001-01-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Kumar R, Kumar M, Sanwal CS and Dobhal S. 2019. Harnessing Trees’ Transpiration Water for Ensuring Water Security in Semi-Arid Tropics: An Innovative Approach. Journal of Horticulture Science and Forestry
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Language English
 
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