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Blog post #4: Ways of harvesting water in arid and semi-arid areas

REASONS FOR HAVESTING WATER

To ensure sufficient water supply for irrigation in arid and semi-arid regions

METHODS OF HAVESTING WATER

1: Spate irrigation : it is a side tracking periodic floods of short interval from a short like streams of water grounds in the sorrounding.

2; Floodwater and runoff farming ; This technique is accumulation of watter which is practised in Ethiopia

  • it aims to collect flood water and overffflow from short sreams or roadside

4; Construction of dams: People in arid and semi-arid regions may also construct dams to ensure that there is sufficient water supply in the regions

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