General review of water harvesting in arid and semi-arid areas | ||
| Kirkuk University Journal For Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 24, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 302-320 PDF (819.35 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.58928/ku22.13324 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Isam M. Abdulhameed1; Wael Fahmi Abdulrahman Al-Shamary2 | ||
| 1University of Anbar, the Upper Euphrates Basin Development Center | ||
| 2University of Kirkuk, College of Agriculture, Department of Mechanization and Agricultural Equipment | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Arid and semi-arid areas are characterized by low annual precipitation rates which are insufficient for plant growth, with precipitation depths in Western Desert in Iraq ranging from 50 to 150 mm. The increasing pressures caused by climate change, water shortages and poor quality have led to a scientific renaissance and innovative ideas for water storage, including the development of water harvesting methods and systems, which are the collection of rainwater from a surface and directing it in appropriate ways to assemble it in a suitable place from which to be taken directly or collected and stored for use at later times, for various purposes, the most important of which is irrigation, domestic needs and feeding underground water basins. Water harvesting systems contribute to improving the vegetation of degraded soils, contributing to combating desertification, settling communities in those areas and improving their living and environmental level. One fact to consider in the area of water harvesting is that in marginal areas with rainfall rates of less than 250 mm per year, production can only be continued and an acceptable level of productivity is guaranteed under a irrigation system complementary to water needs so that this amount of water is provided through water harvesting and a minimum rainfall of 100 mm in winter, or 150 mm in summer, has been adopted for water harvesting and supplementary irrigation projects. According to certain considerations. The most important component of the water harvesting system is the catchment area, storage facility and cultivated area. . The most important factors to consider when harvesting water are the distribution of rainfall, intensity of rainfall, properties of the runoff, water storage capacity in the soil, reservoirs, agricultural crops, available techniques and socioeconomic conditions. There are factors that mainly affect water storage quantities, the most important of which are soil surface characteristics, soil type and precipitation characteristics. The means of harvesting water are divided into two parts: microcatchment systems, macro-catchment systems. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Target area; water harvesting; reservoirs; supplementary irrigation; groundwater | ||
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