Public domain innovation that can save water and help adapt to climate change.
Published on by Sergius Gandolfi, professor at Universidade de São Paulo in Academic
Dear friends,
My name is Dr. Sergius Gandolfi (University of São Paulo / Brazil) and I am a specialist in tropical forest restoration.
I write because I would like to disclose an important innovation (concept and invention) recently developed (2019). This new technology (free from patents / public domain) can help adapt to climate change, develop sustainable agriculture and forestry and make ecological restoration projects cheaper.
This simple technology was originally developed for tropical forest restoration projects, radically changes the fundamentals of the irrigation process, drastically reducing water consumption. The initial results already obtained are very promising; however, more research and tests are needed.
As I am not an expert in irrigation or water, I am not able to continue developing this technology, also because, after 40 years of work, I recently retired from university.
Therefore, the purpose of this sharing is to attract researchers, technicians, public or private institutions to get involved in this subject, since a better development of this new technology can have an enormous environmental, social and economic impact.
The main advantages of this new technology over traditional methods are:
• does not extract water from rivers, lakes, etc., for irrigation, avoiding the degradation of aquatic ecosystems
• does not spill water on the soil, thus not causing erosion
• reduces water losses through evaporation / percolation
• does not use energy to irrigate (capillary action)
• irrigate continuously and indefinitely if there is water at the catchment point
• allows to create extremely low cost irrigation systems, etc.
Originally, the information on this method was published only in Portuguese (nov 2019), however, there is already an English version available for download at the link below:
Therefore, I would like to invite you to evaluate the content of the pdf indicated in the link and, if consider it to be relevant, I would like to request your collaboration in the dissemination of this information to specialists in the field of soil, water and irrigation, in the hope that some of them may be interested and better develop the existing potential in this new technology
I am available to provide more details and information.
Thankful
Dr. Sergius Gandolfi
Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Restoration
Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture
University of São Paulo - BrazilMedia
Taxonomy
- Water
- Agriculture