Hello! I guess first, I'll introduce myself. My name is Nathan. I've decided to create this blog to document my experience with my Environmental Sustainability Class trip to India. Specifically we are working with the NGO, Sadguru, in rural villages near Dahod India.
What's it about??? -
Well we decided to concentrate on Agriculture and especially irrigation. India has one dry season and one monsoon season. Before the green revolution Currently in India, there was large food shortages. One of the solutions to this problem was to use flood irrigation methods to water their fields, effectively creating two growing seasons: Monsoon & Irrigation (during the dry season). To flood irrigate they have created large check damns to capture more water during the monsoon season. They then pump water out of the aquifer during the dry season. The problem is this is causing metals, usually trapped under the ground to be brought up disolved in the water from the aquifer and spread upon the surface by the flood irrigation. This can cause problems such as flourosis. They have also found that the aquifer isn't being replenished quite as fast as it's being taken. So, we've broken up into teams with a few solutions/research interests in mind pertaining to agriculture.
What Group Am I??? -
I'm in the design group!!! So far we've build a drip irrigation system in my back yard. It worked but it was a bit finicky. Another member took it home this turkey weekend to calibrate it. But my biggest hair pulling thing right now is we are also try to my a pot for pot irrigation. I'll post some descriptions of the systems later.
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Nathan
Nathan
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