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Active planning is possible with reliable hydro-meteorological data. Sustainable water management can permanently preserve areas that are used griculturally. It is possible to counteract to sinking ground water levels so that these areas will recover. Salinisation can be avoided by sufficient irrigation, too. Well-planned resource management and careful irrigation technology will increase the crops. Thus, migration to cities will decrease, and with it the development of slums because matured structures of rural populations are maintained.
Photo: Jürgen Baisch
Photo: Jürgen Baisch
Wells
If the construction of wells is based on secured parameters of water balance, especially women and children will profit on the long term because drying up of wells will be unlikely. Long ways to the next well will no longer occur. Less time will be needed to fetch water, an activity that is often laborious or even dangerous.
This means that especially girls and women will have more time for school and learning, which will enable them to get better education. Education is the country’s capital, for it improves productivity; and national economy will profit from it as well.
Measuring Stations
Gauging stations do not directly give water to the people, i.e., people do not see direct benefits from it. Nevertheless, these stations support responsible handling of water resources and environmental esteem, and people can see that the exploration of water resources is possible even in very remote regions.
In order to teach people about the reason and use of setting up these gauging stations, it is planned to equip the stations with informative signposts that explain their use in their respective national language and with diagrams.