Roads and water are generally seen as enemies, with water responsible for most of the damage to roads, and roads being a major cause of problems such as erosion, waterlogging, flooding, and dust storms. This tension, however, can be reversed.…
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Can road design boost water security in rural regions?
re-posted from GRIPP Roads for Water is integrating road construction and small water infrastructure to harvest rainwater from small catchments for productive use, while reducing road damage and simplifying road maintenance. Improving road drainage design is reducing soil erosion and increasing…
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Collecting Water With Roads – ground-breaking research wins Global Environment Award
Water is short in many places but roads are everywhere – and when it rains it is often along these roads that most water runs, as roads unknowingly either serve as dike or a drain. By harvesting the water with…
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Roads for Water: Effecting Change in Tigray, Ethiopia
from the WaterChannel: Question: How can dusty roads provide water? Answer: By harvesting and storing rainwater when it falls on them. A 30 mm rainfall over a 1-kilometre stretch of road can produce up to 100,000 litres of water. This number…
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New Paper – Roads for water: the unused potential
A new paper by Diego Garcia-Landarte Puertas, Kifle Woldearegay, Lyla Mehta, Martin Van Beusekom, Marta Agujetas Peréz and Frank Van Steenbergen from the Catalyst Project: Optimising Road Development for Groundwater Recharge and Retention Download the open access Waterlines paper from…
UPGro - African Groundwater 2020 