How to do water harvesting and storage in valleys using Small Earth dams

Earth Dam and reservoirWater harvesting within valleys is the harnessing, storage and delivery of excess water that would otherwise naturally flow in a watercourse. Water harvesting in a watercourse is distinguished from natural river flow by the fact that the water targeted for storage flows as excess floods during the rainy season, and base flow, if any, is not stored but is allowed to leave the storage structure

Water harvesting and storage in Valleys using Earth Dams

 

2 thoughts on “How to do water harvesting and storage in valleys using Small Earth dams

  1. Do you train communities, on how to harvest rain water or how to construct earth dams? I am from machakos county, Masinga.

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