How much to bring clean water to a small Somali city?
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All year round. The idea by digging those bunds is to trap any rainwater when it does rain, replenishing the ground water, allowing plants and native tress to grow, so that come next rainy season, even more water is "trapped" in the ground so even more plants grow etc. It is a positive cycle. Kind of like damming a valley but much much cheaper. Dig it once and it just regenrates the land on its own after a few years and all the wells refill and last longer and longer into the dry season. I saw a few examples where once seasonal rivers that only used to last a few weeks ended up lasting months and almost till the next rainy season, let alone the wells which were almost near the surface whereas before they were many meters deep if not dry.
@Abaq there is something about 'trees' on 'mountains' theory. Calmadow is always green all year round, I suspect it's so high above sea water it can control the air current and thus lead to more rain.
I don't think 'trees' in valleys/plains will work though to generate more rain since it's not that high above sea level, so those lands are more suitable for harvesting.
There is heaps of 'dry mountains and hills' across all Puntland, I wonder if it was greened up if it could have a positive effect on generating more rain. I am not sure tho.
I don't think 'trees' in valleys/plains will work though to generate more rain since it's not that high above sea level, so those lands are more suitable for harvesting.
There is heaps of 'dry mountains and hills' across all Puntland, I wonder if it was greened up if it could have a positive effect on generating more rain. I am not sure tho.
Maybe some puntites @Pwyneth Galtrow can get into contact with our puntite sister Yasmin puntland's local 'green warrior' at
www.drylandsolutions.org
So we can hook her up with this Aussie NGO who works with local NGO partners to discuss permanent green solutions for puntland and we can be member of the 'hydrologic corridor' program. I find it very interestsing this new cheap technique of digging 'bunds'
PS - My only recommendation is we have 220,000 SQ KM of land in Puntland(including SSC/Makhir). We don't want to become a 'jungle' completely. I want land diversity only, I still want my desert so natural resource companies view my land as the most suitable for investment, becuz they will not 'extract' minerals from green-lands as it will disturb their eco-system.
So let's work out how much percentage do we want 'green' in PL.
DrylandSolutions
www.drylandsolutions.org
So we can hook her up with this Aussie NGO who works with local NGO partners to discuss permanent green solutions for puntland and we can be member of the 'hydrologic corridor' program. I find it very interestsing this new cheap technique of digging 'bunds'
PS - My only recommendation is we have 220,000 SQ KM of land in Puntland(including SSC/Makhir). We don't want to become a 'jungle' completely. I want land diversity only, I still want my desert so natural resource companies view my land as the most suitable for investment, becuz they will not 'extract' minerals from green-lands as it will disturb their eco-system.
So let's work out how much percentage do we want 'green' in PL.
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Four additional countries in Africa (Malawi, Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana) have signed contracts to start their Hydrologic Corridor projects. Expanding the impact even further. We are very proud to say the least to be a part of this great green movement and will continue to support this cause.
Velœcity
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Which areas would you prefer they dig bunds in? Maybe North Mudug while keeping Dhahoor/Nugaal valleys dry.Maybe some puntites @Pwyneth Galtrow can get into contact with our puntite sister puntland's 'green warrior' atDrylandSolutions
So we can hook her up with this Aussie NGO who works with local NGO partners to discuss permanent green solutions for puntland and we can be member of the 'hydrologic corridor' program. I find it very interestsing this new cheap technique of digging 'bunds'
PS - My only recommendation is we have 220,000 SQ KM of land in Puntland(including SSC/Makhir). We don't want to become a 'jungle' completely. I want land diversity only, I still want my desert so natural resource companies view my land as the most suitable for investment, becuz they will not 'extract' minerals from green-lands as it will disturb their eco-system.
So let's work out how much percentage do we want 'green' in PL.
Is this only part of the year, or is it always green?
Part of the year but is much greener than the inland area
This is dangooryo in the middle of nugaal
