Meet the Rainwater Harvesting Champions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda 

once you start going in the right direction, your cup overflows with blessings

PLEASE continue such good work and content! I deeply admire those people, because even with limited resources they immediately take action and carry out what they have learnt. The elderly individual attended a course and he immediately acted on it.

This is good news no killing disease just positive things we do god is good

After seeing so many of these videos, I really wonder how much of the creation of deserts and eco systems in ancient history were a result of a change in the climate or human activity ? Perhaps both, resulting in societal collapse of ancient city states or large population areas as resources are used up and not replaced. Trees seem to play a very big part in maintaining soil and water retention. As they are used up for building and firewood, population would outstrip the natural resources, land would degrade yielding less and less food until eventually it becomes desert like or at best marginal until no longer able to support large numbers of people who would then disperse to find somewhere else to start the process all over again.

Geoff Lawton's green the desert project has helpful advice

Knowledge gives power to overcome.

This is how our Grand parents were used to be busy with field and come up with great ideas! Nowadays we do everything by rushing.....

May all deeds have the deserving abundant fruit they deserve

I am Montagnard indigenous love these videos I learn from you thanks.

The narrator spoke of historic rain water harvesting efforts all over the world, but it seems like most of the emphasis in the 20th Century was focused on central government projects. The recent efforts at permaculture, including agro-forestry, construction of on-contour swales, rock walls, beaver-dam analogs and other low- tech local solutions will have a greater benefit in the long run because it empowers and encourages local residents to actively participate in projects that are an immediate benefit to their families and communities.

If everyone learned and practiced this, people wouldn’t be crying for the government to give them food.Especially Kenya

uma das coisas que mais me alegra na vida é que tem gente que foi a Afrka ensinar como se prepara a terra e se faz chover e que ensinam a plantar .Amém!

the kenyan guy is my tribesman hhahaahha nice

They need to be doing this on a mass scale in Nevada, California, Arizona and so many other places in America. Instead of suggesting water pipelines and severe rationing, we could be transforming the landscape. If they can do this in the driest places on earth, they can do it here. It's becoming more and more urgent. When reservoirs, lakes and rivers are drying up every month and every year, what is it going to take to get people's attention?!? When the survival of not just the human race, but absolutely everything that Mother Nature has created depends on water, we do not have the luxury of time to solve this problem. As John Liu says, "if we can transform damaged landscapes, why don't we do that?" If selfishness, hatred and greed continue to dominate mankind, we are lost.

Pant covering crops, less exposure of the ground to the heat of the ground, retains moisture, do not remove the cuttage, but use it to cover the soil, do your weeding before it's seeds, the technique is on this platform, RU-vid. It will improve the quality of your soil, provide grazing for your cattle, if modified to suit your needs.

the film never explained how the contour creates a swale nor how the swale slowly releases water down hill for the crops

estas gente son muy hermosas yo quiero reza por este gente

Everyday heroes!

permaculture works 100%.. greening the desert project

Very inspiring! I agree with Creative Writers. Perhaps you could do another video showing contour trenching and other techniques the people use. !Saludos desde Mexico!

Thank you for posting tis video. It is informative. Will support and will be following.

Such beautiful people

Lovely

The captions are impossible to read on my phone. Bummer.

Next thing they need to train them to use mulch to reduce water evaporation.

Desertification may be one of the reasons of raising ocean levels. Think of all the water stored in plants body, clouds.

Go champs!

wish the video had more information about the techniques they are using

is nice to improve farm practice in simple way

He it is Who sends down water from the sky; from it you drink and from it the vegetation on which you send your cattle to pasture. With it He causes to grow for you the crops, the olives, the date palms, the grapes, and every kind of fruit. Verily, in this is indeed an evident proof and a manifest sign for a people who give thought. (Al-Quran, Surah An-Nahl: 10-11)

when water have one wish come true - water flow slow

Green earth lot of food stuff and working to gether Must say Allah t. A bar act cut tool ah. Thank' slot.

Thank you so much! I would like to learn more about sustainable development / ecology.

AWESOME.

The problem globally is not subsistence farming practices, it's big foreign mining companies and the likes of Coca-Cola that "own" water through corruption deals with governments. The people have always lived in sync with nature.

Please tell me your video about how to grow the plant with salt water and avoid the dangers of salt water

Respected sir, All this plan is ok, I have stayed in village, we also have hill, you must look the water movement during worse rain fall. You must respect natural water flow, don't block that area, otherwise all your plantation will get disturb in heavy rain fall. Please don't group together to do crime. What's the point in working if you believe in crime. Namh shivay.

Crear job. Keep It up

humans strip the land and expose dirt, then pour water into the dirt and it goes away. some is picked up by the plants. there is no place in nature that has exposed soil except deserts and beaches. it is common for the richest to the poorest. I hope that these people, so close to the land, make it work.

this is beautiful !

the solutions are make big dams like Ethiopia.

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Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.

Paul Wheaton has a kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/better-world-book?ref=c7and for his new book all about ways anyone can help with global issues and still live a great life. It has some great ideas about permaculture, grey water use, hugelkultur, heating homes, rocket ovens, using animals to help the land, keeping water on the land, etc. And there are some great extras even when you only back it for a few dollars. I think this is something anyone could use.

They should try covering the soil!

Genius

Good

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Commento scritto ,prego, più comprensibile. Grazie

they say that they can block the sun ray melting the ice, so they can ski in Europe etc they can stop raining any given time and place with technology. i hope climate change is not happen because of all this and other actions. i wish. 🙏🏾

the amharic translation is waaayyy off...

Nobody teach them to make a cart to carry the water and change the primitive ways me farming.

why is learning a problem? That shouldnt be a problem with reasonable person.... what makes it so difficult for them is their culture which proofs trought our history beeing not good to the people.

Раздайте землю людям !!! ...

A video that is a waste of time and resources

ultra propagandowa treść