Watering the Hills: Bamboo's Role in Northeast Indian Agriculture.
Bamboo Pipes!
If you have spent some time in the hilly areas of North-East India, you might have stumbled upon an engineering marvel—crafted entirely from bamboo. This isn't just any setup; it's a bamboo drip irrigation system.
The bamboo drip irrigation system is based on gravity and the steep slopes facilitate in implementing it. Water from an uphill source is tapped and brought to the plantation by a main bamboo channel. Usually these water sources are far off from the plantations and the main bamboo channel runs hundreds of meters — in some cases even few kilometers.
Sometimes water is diverted to distant houses for domestic use.
If you know of any such examples of communities using locally available resources to address local challenges, tell us below.
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