Vanishing land and water : soil and water conservation in dry lands /

Chleq, Jean-Louis.

Vanishing land and water : soil and water conservation in dry lands / Jean-Louis Chleq, Hugues Dupriez ; translated by Bridaine O'Meara. - London ; Basingstoke : Macmillan publishers ltd., 1988. - vi, 117 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - Land and life .

Contents;

1. Vanishing land and water
Where does water come from? Where does it go?
Where does soil come from?

2. Soil erosion by rainwater
Erosion mechanisms
Causes and consequences of erosion

3. Fighting erosion to save villages
Eliminating runoff in fields
Eliminating gullies and small streams

4. Extracting water from the ground
Wells and bores in general
Sinking a well and its intake
Bores
Water lifting and the layout of a wellhead

5. Surface water storage

6. Organizing for action




Index : p. 117.

D88- 6088 ; D88- 6084 ; D88- 6085 ; D88- 6086 ; D88- 6087 ; D88- 6090 ; D88- 6093

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Soil conservation
Water conservation

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