Comments on: ‘Small is Also Beautiful’ – Appropriate Technology Cuts Rice Farmers’ Water Use by 30 Percent in Punjab, India

By: 10 Technologies Making An Impact « Gradian Health Systems Blog

10 Technologies Making An Impact « Gradian Health Systems Blog — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:15 +0000

[...] PAU’s Tensiometer (Columbia Water Center) A small, color-coded device that measures the amount of water in soil and is saving rice farmers in India countless amounts of water. [...]

By: Achieving Water Sustainability in Ceará, Brazil – Water Matters - State of the Planet

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:34:04 +0000

[...] tensiometers could be used to monitor the amount of moisture in the soil and prevent overwatering, a strategy the CWC has utilized successfully in agricultural areas in India. And experimenting with sustainable agricultural techniques or crops better suited to local [...]

By: Water, Oil and Food – A Crisis for Saudi Arabia and the World – Water Matters - State of the Planet

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:32:06 +0000

[...] production in India faces its own water crisis, with massive rice-producing states such as Punjab rapidly depleting their groundwater supplies to feed the nation. To give a sense of how bad India’s groundwater depletion crisis is, about [...]

By: Water Scarcity: A Shared Problem With a World of Solutions – Water Matters - State of the Planet

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:10:11 +0000

[...] to increase transparency of consumption and encourage conservation. Similarly, CWC’s innovative tensiometer project, conducted in conjunction with the Punjab Agricultural University, uses an inexpensive [...]

By: premanand.B.Dashavant

premanand.B.Dashavant — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:43:13 +0000

Dear sir
Its really amaging to see such a wonderful and most needed technology, it is the kind of project which is needed tody. Iam an agril engineer and would like to meet you so that I can write a project and submit to karnataka govt under newly formed agri’l university at Raichur, kar

By: Finding Answers to the Worsening Water Crisis in Gujarat, India – Water Matters - State of the Planet

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:42:52 +0000

[...] start with, a technique being successfully used by the CWC project in Punjab is being adapted to Gujarat. A few farmers are beginning to experiment with irrigating fields [...]

By: An Alarming Water Crisis in India’s Food Bowl: Finding Sustainable Solutions – Water Matters - State of the Planet

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:26:33 +0000

[...] during the process. Technologies include laser leveling of fields before sowing and the use of tensiometer technology for effective irrigation [...]

By: Direct Seeding of Rice – A Simple Solution to India’s Water Crisis? – Water Matters - State of the Planet

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:17:32 +0000

[...] particularly among rice farmers. In last year’s trial, the most successful project involved the installation of inexpensive tensiometers in the fields of over 500 farmers, yielding water savings of 30-35 [...]