Sasa Watu watamea akili. When there is no replenishment from surface runoff water table automatically falls.
Hata diagram, photos, pilchards, pie-charts???..yawa!!!
Surface runoff doesn’t recharge water table. It flows down into the river and on into the ocean. For you to recharge the water table you need to slow the water down to give it time to percolate. This is what fallen logs and vegetation do in our natural forests in the water towers.
In farmland you can the process through digging contour trenches and doing contour tillage.
@Ndindu hii sweep ni Kali. Stay down.
@Ndindu ni bonobo 001. Bure kabisa.
Sooner no talker will take you seriously. You peruse a few articles on the internet , gather one or two keywords alafu unakuja uku masquerading as fully informed.
But it does. It all depends on the land use at the place of runoff. For instance surface runoff at a very developed place ie concreted surfaces is at approx 30% but in areas where land is majorly for farming, give percolation at around 70%. Note, there is only surface runoff if the underlying soil strata is fully saturated.
[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Surface runoff recharges the water table.
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[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]When there is little or no rain of what use will the contours that you are talking about be. Water table and the rain are directly connected.
Uliingia kwa hiyo water table ukaona maji imedidimia au?
Borehole pump iko na sensor ya water level, lakini akili yako fifu haiwezi elewa
Sasa unatuambia ndio tufanye nini,tukojoe ndio borehole zijae
Scientific statements require well illustrated objective diagrams.
Hii ni kama statement ya Konyagi akiwa kalewa
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I was simply agreeing with you about recharge in that statement. Groundwater recharge is to some extent a function of precipitation and also land use. You do not expect paved surfaces to contribute as much recharge as farm land through percolating. In matters surface runoff, treat the ground as a sponge, water will only flow on/over it only when its saturated.
Right now am.busy working on 84 acres(10%) of my farm at Tinga on your way to Magadi…also helping my friend on 50 acres of his 500 acre farm in setting up a permaculture based land rejuvenation setup. I have done it in Rumuruti pale Posta on my 150 acre farm & 7 years later I have 2 streams emanating from the lower parts of the farm…and I intend to dig a massive resevoir where the streams can drain into before the water flows down to neighbouring farms…land reclamation & water table restoration is very possible…actually by the 4th year the vegetation & general landscape had changed to a point when you were within the farm it felt like a totally different place with a different climatic feel than surrounding areas.
What proportion of the earth’s surface is flat like in your diagram? Very little, right? Water would rather flow away (downhill, in direction of least resistance) than percolate into the earth. To conserve more water in our water table we must invest a lot in structures that will slow down the water to enable it have time to percolate into the earth.
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Tuoshe mecho na hiyo shamba ya green.
Headed there weekend nitawaosha mecho proper