Agrodok 13 Water harvesting and soil moisture retention The Agrodok series has lacked a booklet describing how water available from rainfall and run-off, . from smaller sources than rivers and ground water, can be better utilised in agriculture. | Agrodok 13 Water harvesting and soil moisture retention Justine Anschutz Antoinette Kome Marc Nederlof Rob de Neef Ton van de Ven Agromisa Foundation Wageningen 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print photocopy microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher. First English edition 1997 Second edition 2003 Authors Justine Anschutz Antoinette Kome Marc Nederlof Rob de Neef Ton van de Ven Editors Justine Anschutz Marc Nederlof Illustrator Barbera Oranje Translation Sara van Otterloo Printed by Stoas Digigrafi Wageningen the Netherlands. ISBN 90 77073 40 X NUGI 835 Foreword The Agrodok series has lacked a booklet describing how water available from rainfall and run-off . from smaller sources than rivers and ground water can be better utilised in agriculture. Antoinette Kome Rob de Neef and Ton van de Ven have filled the gap by writing this Agrodok Water harvesting and soil moisture retention . The contents have also been supplemented by the undersigned. The water harvesting techniques described are particularly useful in arid and semi-arid areas but the techniques described for soil moisture conservation are also of use in sub-humid regions. Theo Meijer Max Donkor and Marc Nederlof have contributed technical advice to this Agrodok. Agromisa is also grateful to Anne Gobin of the Institute for Land and Water Management in Leuven Belgium and to Pierre Chevallier of the Hydrology Department of ORSTOM in Montpellier France for their comments on an earlier version of this Agrodok. Finally without Barbera Oranje this Agrodok would not have been complete for she has drawn and adapted a large number of the illustrations. Justine Anschütz Marc Nederlof editors Wageningen April 1997 Foreword
