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Building an affordable round dam: Part 2: Construction and maintenance
by JA Nienaber and M van Zyl Some regard this Southern African drought as the worst in human history and it is still with us. Farmers should start to think totally differently about water preservation. The first step is to collect and store water efficiently and for as long[...]
Building an affordable round dam: Part 1
by JA Nienaber and M van Zyl All three countries covered by this new magazine, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia, experience one of the most severe droughts in human history. A manual on building a dam is perhaps a little too late, but since it is never too late to[...]
Aquadam: Bou ’n dam vir ’n leeftyd
Die allernoodsaaklike grondslag vir elke vorm van boerdery is water. Ongelukkig val die reën nie altyd presies wanneer en waar ons dit nodig het nie, daarom is dit noodsaaklik dat die boer water moet kan opgaar. Daar is verskillende maniere om water op te gaar: tenks van staal, sink[...]
Die Karibadam hou groot gevaar in
Die Karibadam wat bekend gestaan het as “one of the engineering wonders of the world” kan moontlik as gevolg van krake ineenstort. Hierdie dam is in 1959 voltooi, is 128 meter hoog, 579 meter wyd en staan bekend as die wêreld se grootste mensgemaakte meer en water reservoir. Die[...]