Field Activities Ethiopia

Details: Created on Monday, 01 October 2012 08:54; Written by Erik van den Elsen

The following WHT were described with the WOCAT questionnaires

Country	Technology	Description	Picture
Ethiopia	Check dam ponds	Dam across stream creates pond to store water for irrigation and to reduce the runoff velocity and enhance gully rehabilitation.
Ethiopia	Soil faced deep trench bunds	Compacted soil bunds constructed following a contour using a soil excavated from deep trenches on the upslope side
Ethiopia	Large semi-circular stone bunds	Stone embankments built in the shape of a semi-circle with the tips of the bund on the contour and arranged in staggered orientation in rows so that overflow from one row will run into the next bund down-slope

The following WHT were selected for test-implementation

Percolation/sediment storage ponds with hand dug wells
Check dams
Series of Hillside Cistern with bench terraces
Soil improvement methods (Mulching, Compost, EM)

Some impressions of the selection workshop;

WAHARA WHT selection workshop, Wukro, Ethiopia (December 14, 2012).
Picture by Kifle Woldearegay Woldemariam

Group discussions: WAHARA WHT selection workshop, Wukro, Ethiopia (December 15, 2012).
Picture by Kifle Woldearegay Woldemariam.

A site for field implementation was selected, and WHT were implemented for testing.
Monitoring is currently on-going. The figures below give some impressions.

Installed three blocks at glance (Picture by Berhane Grum).

Side view of one Block with six plots ( gutter 10cm down and extends 20cm horizontally
buried below ground to prevent loss of water below the gutter).
(Picture by Berhane Grum)