Visit the newly constructed rainwater harvesting research plant at UNAM Eduardo dos Santos (Engineering) Campus in Ongwediva
Rainwater Harvesting research plant at UNAM Campus Ongwediva
CuveWaters together with its partners TU Kaiserslautern and FU Berlin has constructed a research plant for rainwater harvesting in August and September 2014 at UNAM Eduardo dos Santos (Engineering) Campus in Ongwediva. The construction was financed by GIZ and BMBF through CuveWaters and was done as part of a training course organized by CuveWaters. In the training course ten people from different Namibian institutions were trained in all aspects of rainwater harvesting tank construction and horticulture and are now able to construct rainwater harvesting tanks elsewhere in Namibia. On 27th of October they will receive their certificates as well as manuals on the technology. The tanks constructed at UNAM during the training course can now be used by Namibian students for research purposes. Rainwater harvesting is a technology that is intended to be used by small-scale rural Namibian farmers for irrigation purposes during the dry season. It enables its users to collect rainwater during the rainy season, to store it and later use it during the dry season.
To get an impression of the implemented facility as well as the training course please have a look on: rainwaterharvestingconstruction.wordpress.com
On 27th of October 2014 the trainee team together with the CuveWaters team will be on the site to explain the plant and the technology.
For further information please contact Alexander Jokisch 081 4405155.
Project background
CuveWaters is a Namibian-German joint research and development project on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (CEB), working in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry. CuveWaters develops and implements an IWRM in a form tailored to the CEB. The central goal is to strengthen the potential of the region’s resources with new and adapted technologies for efficient water supply. The implemented technologies include pilot plants for rainwater harvesting, groundwater desalination, sanitation and water re-use, and subsurface water storage. The Institute for social-ecological research (ISOE) leads the CuveWaters project, with the Institute IWAR of the Technical University in Darmstadt as the joint research partner. Both institutions are situated in Germany. In Namibia CuveWaters works in close cooperation with the Ministry for Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF).
For general information on the CuveWaters project please check our homepage on: www.cuvewaters.net
How to find the constructed rainwater harvesting research plant
The plant is located on UNAM Eduardo dos Santos (Engineering) Campus in Ongwediva right behind the student accommodation building.