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Session 8:

Using water

rationally

Session 8:

Using water

rationally

Language: English

Language: EnglishLanguage: EnglishLanguage: English

Version: 2011

Version: 2011Version: 2011Version: 2011

Corresponding principle:

Principle 4. Water conservation

Corresponding principle: Principle 4.

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Do you use water on your farm?

• _{Irrigation of the farm}

• _{Irrigation of the nursery}

• _Houses

• _{Pack house}

• _{Coffee mill}

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Wasting water

• _{Leakages from the equipment}

• _{Irrigation by flooding the field}

• _{Loss by evaporation}

• _{Over-irrigation}

etc.

Corresponding criterion:

4.3

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If you continue wasting water…

• _{Ground water getting exhausted}

• _{Stream dried up}

• _{Wells dried up}

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• _{Fixing leakages}

• _{Monitoring how much water you are using}

• _{Observing your soil, and apply only the}

necessary quantity

Reducing the use of water

Corresponding criterion: 4.3

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Reducing the use of water

• _{Using an irrigation system that economize}

water (e.g. drip irrigation)

• _{Getting a legal permit for extraction}

criterion: 4.1, 4.2

criterion:

4.1, 4.2

Drip

irrigation Flood

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Recycling water

4.1

Optional videos

You can find the following optional videos as “Attachments” to this course.

•_{Recycling of water at a coffee mill (in}

Spanish)

•_{Recycling of water at a coffee mill (in}

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Collecting rain water

• _{For domestic use, irrigation etc.}

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Summary

Fixing leakages

Monitoring your water

use

Monitoring your water

use

Reduce the irrigation based on the soil

condition

Reduce the irrigation based on the soil

condition

Irrigation system that economize

water

Irrigation system that economizes

water

Getting a legal permit for extraction Getting a legal

permit for extraction Collecting rain

water

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