Water harvesting is the collection of runoff for productivity purposes, instead of runoff being left to cause erosion. In arid and semi-arid drought-prone areas, micro-catchments are widely used as a water harvesting method to improve rangeland condition. The aim of present study was to investigate the effects of micro-catchment on ecological indices of rangeland health in Ghick-Sheikhha, Jirof...

This study focused on the Upper Manyame sub-catchment which covers an area of approximately 3 786 km2 and forms part catchment, one seven catchments Zimbabwe. catchment has its source in Marondera town drains into Zambezi River downstream Kariba Dam upstream Cahora Bassa Dam, northern country. assessed potential climate change impacts streamflow reservoir inflows sub-catchment. Hydrologic simul...

The determinants of the technical efficiency (TE) of adopters and non-adopters of soil and water conservation (SWC) technologies in the upper Rwizi micro-catchment of south-western Uganda are compared using cross-sectional survey data from 246 smallholder farmers. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic production frontier and a probit selection model fitted to generate inverse Mills ratios for adopters and ...

Improving water use efficiency and soil properties are two major factors for sustainable development in desert areas. Therefore, this research aims to study the effectiveness of a biological hydrogel, plant vegetation layer, sand and barley straw with rain harvesting techniques through micro-catchment operation on some soil properties including pH, Nitrogen, Electrical conductivity, Sodium Abso...

abstract rainwater harvesting (rwh) is one of the most effective water resources management techniques for confrontation with water shortage condition. rwh which is basically known as a traditional method, has been developed rapidly and being used widely in dryland countries throughout the world. rwh is defined as collecting and storing rainwater from nearby catchment and delivering it to plant...

Springs in the mountains and hills are getting affected by both climatic non-climatic changes. Hydrologic models used to simulate response of spring systems changes; however, only a limited number studies using hydrologic modeling approach have been accomplished on studying springs spring-dominated watersheds Nepal. This research aimed at understanding changing hydrological processes through ca...

Understanding the impacts of land-use change on landscape-hydrological dynamics is one of the main challenges in the Northern Brazilian Cerrado biome, where the Amazon agricultural frontier is located. Motivated by the gap in literature assessing these impacts, we characterized the soil hydro-physical properties and quantified surface water fluxes from catchments under contrasting land-use in t...