Enormous destruction has been done across India with the old and stagnant idea of large dams and canals!!! In the USA they are breaking down large old dams. We need to remove all the large old dams in india and follow only THIS grassroots decentralised watershed system!! Excellent video, graphics and animation. People need to be in control of their own water, food and at least minimum energy needs like rooftop solar lighting. Decentralised is the only way to water, health and food security for 1.3 billion!
You are taking on wrong things. If you see the area is being changed to create water percolation so it doesn't run off and erode the land. These are uneven landscapes being improved for useful purposes.
just in case links are suppressed on this channel nrega (dot) nic (dot) in/Netnrega/Data/SPS_Watershed_Works_Manual_Eng.pdf you would have to remove the (dot) and the blanks. Or you search for watershed manual National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Watershed Works Manual Baba Amte Centre for People’s Empowerment Samaj Pragati Sahayog July 2006
Great discussions of concepts and practices for which we are indebted to you. Rest of the world can benefit from these ideas in practical applications. Talk is cheap but practical fruitful examples are the best. Regards.
shouldn't they plant some trees and grasses and bushes on those ridges?..?...great work anyway! Love all the greenery they are achieving with their hard work! so so worth it...
You're thinking of swales. They're essentially digging deep pools. Goes to show how much variability there can be, and it still works. I think the advantage is that this is fairly easy to design accurately and you don't need to worry about the berm holding. But it seems like a lot (more) of labor. A single tractor doing keyline rips would probably be a lot easier and capture just as much water. But they might not have access to that. It would be interesting to gear from them why they chose CCT - could be just the 'default flavor' of earthworks popular in India.
Great approach and project! Such a good story. Additionally permanent soil cover, and reduced tilling of soil could reduce soil erosion further. Check work being done in Green wall in the Sahel (Sahara)
23:00 the washed out (but retained) material is still too fine, obviously the soil does not have enough crumb, they would need to have mulch or cover crops all year round.
The most valuable principle in localized harvesting is it's resilience in case of eventual societal colapses. god forbid it happen in India, but it is a risk anywhere in the face of increasing climate conflicts. Depending on large administration-heavy infrastructures is risky when fragmentation and disintegration of countries occurs. Local waterharvesting makes the villages more autonomous in that scenario and are appropriate technologies that can be sustained and implemented with relatively simple engineering skills.
South and East Asia, South China people knew to develop Water sustainably for thousand years. But people in India, Africa, Middle east wasted water until recent years.
And Chinese people also knew well to grab so much mineral and other natural resources from other countries and export cheap products to markets. They used to achieve this by authoritative regime and dictator ship. But other countries are democratic so they lagged behind in race with China.
@@muralib406 Chinese race is much more superior than many others races then they richer and more powerful. Many other nations are lagged behind china because it is their own nature, their competency. Rulers cheat their people about fake democrats to enslave them, then they lost in competition with china.
@@tongthongvutru6693 ha ha I certainly think you should go back to history classes and study your history comparing indian history. Lots of literature available by your own people. You are a racist too!!! Read about famines and poverty before communist rule in your country. We never ever try to steal bread from others plate. That speaks lot about our race and country.
@@muralib406 Why did you report my answer. India people should study how to use toilet and sanitary living before using internet, also need to find language to make it become Linga Franca rather than using Foreign Language. You are so racist to attack Chinese people...hahah
@@tongthongvutru6693 ha hA you dwarf racist do you know how many languages are spoken and written in India not like your manderin in China. You people are full of Xerox copy like no individuals or diverse. We just seen your courage. You better understand our country is full of brave men unlike you people like herd of sheep fallow your master. Your culture whole world know about your culture. Your country doesn't have morality to teach us. Your food is full of dirtiest creatures on earth that food itself make your mind and body so that itself speak about your cultural heritage....
I KNOW what is happening. The monsun is providing A LOT of water, but the soil just simply CAN'T absorb all. This is the enter to the floods and destruction. However Indians CAN save that water by using biochar. That thing mixed with the soil will keep the water for LONG time, while absorbing a hell tonne of it! A metre-thick biochar soils were found in Amazon jungle where rains are 10 times as monsun everyday! And that soil do not die!
@Virat rc rc Have fun: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p0YNFn9Dloc.html - biochar power (beans and two farmers) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5Czs3kI8Rk4.html - bamboo biochar (hill+mikoryza) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XQxthabe_OU.html - 2fold (old image from USA past) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TvSwJDoFLDo.html - experiment ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sgK5DWCMj8A.html - BioChar Pot Trials
@Virat rc rc Biochar isn't the "peat" . There is enough trees in *India* to turn them in to the biochar, then charge biochar with the nitrogen source (urine, ammoium nitrate, other nitrates). Job need to be done ONCE and ELIMINATES the artificall fertilizers need! Mix the charged biochar with the soil in 1 to 10. (1 to 6 for grass speciessess like the wheats)
@Virat rc rc I am ASTONISHED! Why you do not see i am using European-like name? Gosh...whatever. I am Lord of Dimension. I write from the Poland, centre of Europa. However my countrymen do not understand the biochar technology and ignore incoming ice age and the hunger due to crop failures :(
@Virat rc rc I think i should pour a hope to you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w8S_-ufAl7A.html - Earth become greener! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S-nsU_DaIZE.html - Explanation! biochar is a GIFT from the nature naturally created during the fires. A simple thing...cheap and expendable. Plus burning biochar do not breed *carcinogenic poisons* in the smoke compare to the wood.
