Tube well Drainage Technology ...

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