All Blog Posts Tagged 'Use' (3)

The area which I live in is largely agricultural and fields have to be replenished with nutrients regularly so that the fields don't become depleted. Often a food crop is grown on these plots of land and eventually tilled under when it has fully grown. This helps to replenish the soil for further growing. Tomatoes are a commonly grown crop and are only harvested by people who know that the tomatoes are free for the taking.

What can be done?

I was told once that there is…

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Time Use Survey 2007 (Water and Use of Time in Pakistan)



I am sharing some important and interesting findings of the Time Use Survey 2007 published in one of government doc**ent (Source: Time Use Survey 2007, Government of Pakistan, Statistics Division, FBS April 2009). Household respondents were asked to say whether water and wood/dung were generally collected by male, female or bother of their households. In rural areas Relative number of household collector of drinking water and… Continue

There are lots of water issues and lots of craziness around water, but as someone interested in sustainable agriculture one drives me particularly nuts. For the most part in the Western United States, water use law is a complex patchwork of competing water rights. While it seems unlikely and even unfair to take water rights away from a farmer or others as they have economic value and would destroy livelihoods, the practice of use it or lose it as enshrined in various states including where I… Continue