A panacea? Using permaculture for groundwater recharge, soil desalination and food security in arid areas.
In the Jordan valley, a project was started to increase soil fertility
on barren, arid, saline soil, using permaculture techniques to harvest
rainwater on ten acres in contour swales. Within a short amount of time,
fruit bearing trees were growing and the salinity of the soil was
decreasing without having washed into the groundwater, polluting it. The
same techniques were used in Australia and while surrounding areas were
desiccating due to the millennium drought, the permaculture project
yielded new springs, fertile soil and high agricultural yields. This
project aims to analyze the validity of these accounts and the
scalability of these methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ra89Y3WefQ&feature=fvsr
About Me
- Em-J W
- For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. My world is the never-ending story and I expect to continue reading as long as I breathe!
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