I have been thinking of taking this concept to reach every village in Kenya, and by extension the rest of developing world. How about if came up with SAND WELL .. Im willing to share the concept if you're interested.
@@sustainableliving3825 if you want a spring, plant an African banyan tree, one spot 3 banyan tree, every 500 meters. insya Allah the banyan tree is very strong and stores a lot of water so springs appear. and the leaves can be used for animal feed
WOOOOW THIS IS SO COOL, whole communities working together on a common goal. Here in the USA you can't hardly get neighbors together to do anything. IS THERE ANY CHANCE that in the future these people MIGHT be able to get construction equipment in there to help them dig and build. Why have we not heard more about this?????? AS AN AMERICAN this make me realize just how blessed I am. Thank you so much for posting.
This is absolutely great, am championing this at my location and behond. Lets also discourage cultuvating along the River banks which is the cause of siltation and kills this progress
So,my point..I’ve worked for 45 yrs, to do that. I echo the line, “we’ve got to stop building pleasure palaces for the idle rich”, (quote fr Mel Brooks). I will work til my dying day, for some semblance of consistancy, for people. In my neighborhood, we have free water, coming out of the ground at 1300 ft above sea level.Water sadly is taken w/out issue yet ground water needs treatment to drink. Iron.
I have a likely stupid question, being from a land of plenty. But I M curious as to why heavy equipment is not loaned to these regions of the world, to dig these trenches?
Hi JIm, thank you for your query! Heavy and mechanical equipment can be very expensive, as well as challenging to transport to certain sand dam site locations due the standard of rural roads in the area. For more information on sand dams please visit: www.excellentdevelopment.com/Pages/FAQs/Category/sand-dam-faqs
One thing I've noticed is you can sometimes get algae growing on barren land bc thr water doesn't permeate the soil. When rains come, you get standing water for several days until it evaporates. But mosy runs off into seasonal streams and then into the ocean.
12:48 "no pay" what ??? Yeah, no money but that's just the collected value of goods and services and there are other ways of getting values out of life. Everybody gain trust in their collective efforts to help one another and eventually they will all have a better future. That's better than money!
Yeah, its quite common in various parts of Africa to work together in groups that assist each member in the group in farming and other activities that have long term benefits e,g. weeding time, harvest time etc.
Hi, new to you. When the nice lady is surprised, that people will work, 2 days in any week, for free, for another farm.. seems incredulous. Likewise, in a capitalist society, everyone can’t hear the reason, to achieve , at no cost, toward a useful result.
