DIS-COURSE

Dear SPIS team, Do we have softwires to support SPISE design e.g. for solar power drinking water supply we have Grundfose, lorentz, wellpump, shakti and others software which are computing all factors for the chosen components, geographical location, and proposing design including solar modules layo...

The best application could be to be use SPISE PV module inactive time for drinking water supply provision at individual or communal level as a small “additional business “or entrepreneurs. Ground water is naturally clean, if water is handled appropriately on the surface, it could be sold in bottle o...

Dear Zelalem, Ideally each SPIS scheme (no matter small or large) should have finance strategy. Normally the financial sources are three in numbers called 3Ts (Tax/public, Tariff and Transfer/grants). To me Transfer or grants shall be diverted to capital expenditure, public sector investment to purc...

Yes Rashid, you are absolutely correct - and lowering the water table will continue unfortunately in many places. Bad examples are many, in India I have seen long time ago the first reports of really excessive ground water lowering of 100 m and more. One idea is to get everybody involved in abstrac...

I agree Tanoh. In case the irrigation grid are not lined and water is leaking persistently, it may cause water logging and salinity and thus desertification. This is true for riparian agriculture. The statistic determined by UNO is alarming: search it further

Thanks,
Rashid

Dears,
Module 1 is greatly presented to understand the concepts. It sounds good for rural context however, I fear it does not address the complexities of SPIS in urban and fragile context. This could be the next version of SPIS .

Best,

Rashid

Hi, Great automated tool to know and FAO tools collection website, thanks SPIS team for letting us know. Just a small enquiry to understand the tool better are, 1. Water requirement data is collected on yearly basis i.e. total water requirement/year which is good for SPIS design but how we cover lea...

To me irrigation itself is good for health (living environment) but unsustainable irrigation system or SPIS resulted into standing water, water pond and marshes which in turn remain breading ground for pathogens that result into 4 types of diseases i.e. 1 water born 2 water wash 3 water based and 4 ...

Hi All, Excessive water pumping is an issue of particular concern in the urban setting in developing countries (urban slums). In my context, the construction of unplanned commercial plazas in residential areas lead to conflicts and dependence on tanker mafias. This is huge setback to urban forming w...