Tubewell Drainage Technology

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Hello I am from Sri Lanka and I want to use tubewell drainage technology for controlling the salinity in agriculture area but there are certain issues with this technology. Reviews of this system are not good. Please suggest me shall we use this system or there is other option for this technique for controlling salinity?

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  1. Dear Sir,

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  5. appreciate every view on my question and the solution everyone one has given, thank you every one. As some members wanted to know the detail of problem, actually the salinity is increasing due to the mono cropping culture and over irrigation.

  6. Dear Bhagya Scientist named Swami Valmiki Sreenivasa Ayyangarya has developed Guruvani, whose functions are similar to Biosanitizer.It has proved itself in arresting algal bloom in very large water bodies.He uses Vedas and sciences not known today but were in use in ancient India.He can successfully treat highly toxic industrial effluents and use them for agriculture. information about the landscape topology, proximity to the sea and what you are growing today. There are crops that we grow in India based on undestanding the salinity profile and growing crops that are suitable for that.

  7. Salinity in ground water and sodic land may perhaps be caused by complex set of factors.I believe that monoculture and excessive water use in irrigation contribute to salinization of agricultural lands.Biodiversity helps to disperse and helps bioconversion of salts left over from the TDS in water.Biodiversity in plants in a given micro environment helps in better assimilation and use of salts.This may be a plot of land or a whole village or taluk, zilla or district in rural places. Weeds are beneficial and should not be removed totally but allowed to grow, then cut or slashed and the biomass should be mulched into the top soil. Two solutions developed in India: Dr Uday Bhawalkar offers explanations which defy conventional academic approach to such problems.He has developed and also improved the performance of biocatalysts over the years, which he calls as Biosanitizer. He also advocates use or organic materials like sewage mixed with sea water and treated with Biosanitizer for use as irrigation water.Fodder grass has thus been grown on sodic lands. Brackish water can be treated by dropping the Biosanitizer into wells or tubewells containing brackish water.The TDS is not lowered but salts are now usable by plants as food due to a bio-convertion process, which conventional chemistry does not explain properly or ignores.His web site: www.wastetohealth.com Similarly another scientist named Swami Valmiki Sreenivasa Ayyangarya has developed Guruvani, whose functions are similar to Biosanitizer.It has proved itself in arresting algal bloom in very large water bodies.He uses Vedas and sciences not known today but were in use in ancient India.He can successfully treat highly toxic industrial effluents and use them for agriculture. He does not have a web site. One blog spot I have created for him: http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/content/keshav-krishi-alternative-sustainable-agriculture Other Blog spots of mine: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Santhanam_R/ http://www.wesnetindia.org/fileadmin/newsletter_pdf/Aug06/Waste_Management.pdf http://www.voy.com/61461/2/833.html

  8. Its a good technology. You should use it.

  10. tubewell drainage technology

    Hi Bhagya, Tubewell drainage is a technique of controlling the watertable and salinity in agricultural areas. It consists of pumping, from a series of wells, an amount of groundwater equal to the drainable surplus. The Indus Plain in Pakistan is a notable example of using tubewells for land drainage, salinity control, and the supply of irrigation water. There, over the last 25 years, thousands of public tubewells have been constructed as part of Salinity Control and Reclamation Projects.

    I guess use the technology, its worth. 

  11. I rise entirely on all these examples and proposals which are published. nature is a 'Biological' state of which all these components are in harmony. that only one is in dysfunction and the amplifying repercussions make feel on all the others. urban water contains micro pollutant chemical: can one be used again oneself about it for an agronomic use? Not of course. pollution of chemical fertilisers does not stop absolutely on the ground on which it are poured. rain precipitations involve them in the whole world. nobody any more takes into account the “BIOLOGICAL” state of our planet as if it were ridiculous unimportant. In Africa of the tests are carried out in agronomy by directly spreading waste waters of hotel of restoration of urban area in the fields. it is certain that those which did that (the success was not with the rendz tell you T they) did not eat the product of their action. In Europe one spreads out of agricultural land the mud residues of waste waters coming from the urban areas which are infected micro pollutant chemical, the waste water is rejected into the natural mediums hydraumic. When become aware to us that for any action it is necessary to search the safeguarding of the BIOLOGICAL one. As those which treat waste waters polluted chemically with plants not having any vocation 1 to purify waste waters, 2 to survive a long time while being saturated with micro chemical particle. the biological cleansing naturally fertilizes the grounds after a treatment of purification completely biological by an also biological process

  12. Salinity, Agriculture

    Hello Bhagya,

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  15. Timothy Rinard #4 water consultant/professional

    Hello Bhagva:  As with any depleted land with a high salt content will make growing almost impossible. Therefore, use a small reverse osmosis system to desalinate your water source, and then the land can be changed and used properly. Remember, that the salt isomer can be turned into fertilizer (hint), and that same isomer can be changed into high nitrogen, which is very good for any depleted soil.   

  16. 'O lor'-these frustrating questions. Dear Bhagya..this cannot be solved like this...Its beyond the capability of all except R.V.Winkle, who I hear is sleeping. Seriously, friend, you want to decrease salinity of x ppm to y ppm. ; Other components are TDS=5%..This is how you say it. I feel Mr. Copolla is right. During floods, do storm water and sea water mixture fall inside the valve. This way posts are not frustrating. ..Regards

  17. Tube well Drainage Technology

    The twin menace of water logging and salinity occur because of the rise in water table which brings the salts within the root zone.The land is affected and starts going out of production.The problem can be solved only by bring water table down and leaching the salts by irrigating the area.

    You need to first take water and soil samples and get them tested in a laboratory and find out the chemical characteristics of land and water.

    You have to also study the water wells in the area to prepare hydro graphs and see the water balance. If the area is also irrigated which may be the major contributor of the rise in water table.

    The vertical drainage that is the tubewell technology is the most effective way to drain water from an area.The project requires tube well installation as well as open surface drains to take the water out of the area.

    I you are looking at an individual farm this technology will not work as you need to drain the area in order to bring the water table down.This is generally done by the land and water development authorities of the countries where land is going out of production after prolonged irrigation.

    Iftikhar  Khwaja

  18. Our wells downstream from a group of farmers with no legal drainage outlet were polluted with the farm chemicals those farmers drained down into our aquifer. They had built two ditches behind two feedlots to drain their Wetland farm fields down the sinkhole that those two ditches dumped down. When the IDNR told them to close their sinkhole drain in 1993 after I had first complained, the tile that group had placed stoped working as the ditches set full of their field runoff water. So they used tubes to empty their tile illegally down into our drinking water. We thought since our water was no lomger full of manure runoff that it was safe and had had our wells retested. Because you cannot taste Anhydrous Ammonia fertilizer, Atrazine a herbicide, and cadmium lead in our drinking water like we had the manure runoff we drank the water after the Iowa DNR's Dale Adam's said the tests were ok when they weren't. The actual well tests were at lethal levels. The Corps of Engineer's in the Midwest is trying to close the formerly legally permited AG drainage wells to prevent this ever increasing state wide pollution of our aquifers with Atrazine, Anhydrous Ammonia fertilizer, or other man-made chemicals that react to the Chlorine added to our drinking water to treat for the CAFO biological fertilizer runoff. But the draining of fields down sinkholes is incresing causing more health issues and deaths Downstream because the financial gain is so large, and Iowa does not enforce its Drainage Laws or the Clean Water Act against renegade farmers.

  19. Dear Bhagya Rupasinghe Thanks for your inquiry. i would like to request you that please give us a clear picture of your inquiry > you have more need to prescribe your question , so that we can give you a real picture please. as you are going to treat surface water or underground water may be that is salin or water logging stuff??? are you going to treat saline water and reusing it for the agricultural development , but here is need of understanding that what is kind of the water you are going to handle ?? is it an effluent or final product of industrial waste or natural plentiful water?? what type of crop you are going to grow? how much concentration of salinity and TDS in your water?? No doubt you are serving the nature and striving for the better and i appreciate your steps taken . Looking forward to your soonest kind response Regards Wasif

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  21. Hi; I think the comments about aquifer recharge may be worth considering. I know that this is used in certain Caribbean Islands. I am not sure of the particulars of your situation, but if there is salt water intrusion, I believe this could be related to excessive GW withdrawal. There may be other much more limited options such as use of crops less sensitive to salinity? Jim

  22. Dear, Just to share you the information, I have seen one costal town in Belgium having saline sea water intrusion caused by over pumping of Ground water however they have dealt with the situation by recharging the ground water with conventionally treated waste water

  23. Hello Bhagya - Not sure exactly what tubewell drainage is, but here are some references you may want to read up on: http://www.changemagazine.nl/deltatimes/combating_salinity and this article (not sure you have access) http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/science/article/pii/S1470160X11001567 entitled: Methodology to assess sustainable management of water resources in coastal lagoons with agricultural uses: An application to the Albufera lagoon of Valencia (Eastern Spain)

  24. Emery Coppola Jr., Ph.D., President NOAH LLC

    Dear Bhagya,

    I think the issue is not technology but whether you are pumping in a coastal area, where saltwater intrusion occurs due to over-pumping?   If so, it is not an issue of the "technology" - that is, whether one uses a tube well versus an irrigation well, etc.  It is more an issue of your total groundwater withdrawals upsetting the natural equilibrium, whereby you start to deplete groundwater storage, which results in saltwater intrusion and/or upconing from changes in the natural groundwater flow system.

    Thus, what you really need to do is optimize your regional groundwater pumping.  Or, if you have a single well, and upconing is the issue, install the well relatively shallow and as far about the freshwater-saltwater interface.  But over time, as regional pumping progresses, your well could become salinated with the changing salinity front. 

    View my website www.noahlc.com for a case study on saltwater upconing in a coastal area - Provincetown (under Case Studies).

     

    Sincerely,

    Emery