Chleq, Jean-Louis

Vanishing land water : soil and water conversation / by Jean-louis Chleq and Hugues Dupriez - London : Macmillan publisher, c1988. - vi, 117 p. : ill. ; 28cm. - land and life .

Contents

Part I: Vanishing land and water
Chapter 1 : Where does water come from? Where does it go?
Chapter 2 :Where does soil come from?

Part II:Soil erosion by rain water
Chapter 3: Erosion mechanism
Chapter 4:Causes and consequences of soil erosion

Part III :Fighting erosion to save villages
Chapter 5:Eliminating run off in fields
Chapter 6:Eliminating gullies and small streams

Part IV: Extracting waters from the ground
Chapter 7: Wells and bores in general
Chapter 8: Sinking a well and its intake
Chapter 9: Bores
Chapter 10:Water lifting and the layout of a wellhead

Part V: Surface water storage

Part VII: Organizing for action


Includes bibliographical references and index

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