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Volume 2, Issue 1 (7-2014)
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In the Hormozgan province, limitation of fresh water resources has led the people of ancient times to think collected and stored rainfalls. Local people and invaders to the store fresh water, build ponds and wells in the area. In many villages, districts, centers and smaller cities in Hormozgan porovince, the pool is still the only source of drinking water. Rainwater is collected and stored in ponds for drinking is very important. Ponds in the south of Iran have certain characteristics and effects. Recently, the towns and villages develop and have piped water systems, but a major expansion of ponds around the villages and roads are visible and the pond water is used for drinking. According to statistics provided by the Health Center of Hormozgan province, there are existing 2842 water reservoirs or ponds in the province.The volume of water extracted from these ponds is more than 15 million cubic meters.Today, people have tried to prevent water pollution and its quick steering ponds, rainwater harvesting levels as high as nearby pond that is steeped expand. These surfaces are called Mamar in local term and they are made of stone and cement. A prominent example of such structures can be seen in the Anjireh village, Bandar Lengeh, Hormozgan province. People of Lavar Sheikh Village's addition to building ponds, have been built concrete short dams in narrow valleys upstream and in this way to collect and store runoff. Water collected in the form of gravity led to the village and are used for drinking consumption.Peoples of Bavrdan village have done very interesting initiative to collect and store flood waters using indigenous knowledge and modern science. They have led floods with good quality to a recharge pool that has a very simple form and a small groundwater aquifer have created. A number of wells have been drilled in the recharge pool and the stored water is extracted through wells and used for drinking. All of them are shown that People looking to use local knowledge and combining it with the knowledge of today and the reason is the need for fresh water and drinking.
Saied Choopani, Abolghasem Hoseinpoor,
Volume 6, Issue 4 (3-2019)
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Today, attention to indigenous knowledge in the field of water and soil has great importance due to its special functions, high compatibility, and ability to maintain ecological balance and promote popular participation. Since the ancient times, people of Hormozgan province have used different ways of utilizing water and soil resources and harvesting rainwater, due to the climate limitation that exist in this area. One of the most prominent examples are the Darband and Kashband structures in the eastern parts of Hormozgan province. Today, these structures are referred to as household economic units in the Bashagard region of Hormozgan. Darband and Kashband are indigenous structures of watershed management in Hormozgan province. These types of structures are made in mountainous areas by natives of the region to create a cultivation area. In the local legal system, the streams and green valleys created by Darband and Kashband have a certain owner. Darbands are constructed as short transverse check dams perpendicular to the flow of water, with a height of approximately 1 to 1.5 meters. Increasing the height of these structures is possible after sedimentation and planting in the following years. The result of Kashband construction is the creation of new lands and suitable cultivation beds on the margins of rivers, along with maintaining soil moisture. This method increases soil moisture and plant growth. Mostly, Darbands and Kashbands are made with rocky materials without cement. However, Darbands with a height of 2.5 to 3 meters are made with rock and cement. The most important agricultural products that are cultivated behind these structures are palm, garlic and citrus. Most of these structures exist in Bashagard region and also parts of the Minab region. Bashagard region includes basins of Jagin and Gabrik reservoir dams. According to available information, more than 4,000 structures (Darband and Kashband) were constructed in the Bashagard district. The results of this study show that this kind of indigenous knowledge has a very long history in the Bashagard area. Therefore, utilizing the economic capacity of the streams with the participation of the people can be very important as a native model in soil and water conservation and as a source of jobs for watershed residents.
Mehdi Shafaghati, Abolghasem Hoseinpoor, Somayeh Nasrolahi,
Volume 7, Issue 1 (5-2019)
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Indigenous knowledge in the field of water and soil has attracted great attention due to its desirable functions, in particular ensuring high compatibility and maintaining ecological balance as well as attracting popular support and encouraging participation. The need for technology and knowledge that, while responding to the growing needs of societies, will also use the natural resources of the environment in a sustainable manner has doubled the importance of collection and compilation of indigenous knowledge in recent years. Obtaining this knowledge is only possible through the combination of formal knowledge and indigenous knowledge. As a result, efforts to collect knowledge of native watershed management and attempts to integrate it with modern sciences are necessary in the present conditions. Due to climatic and environmental constraints of the area, people of Hormozgan have long used various practices in the field of exploitation of water and soil resources and rain harvesting. These techniques are traditionally and experimentally obtained by the people themselves. Rainfall basin systems, traditional management and exploitation of floods, saline and fresh water separation, soil conservation, utilizing sloped lands, and flood farming are a series of measures taken by people in the dry Hormozgan region, Persian Gulf islands and communities living on the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. These practices include the traditional ways of protecting and exploiting soil and water resources, which are presented here with an overview of goals, functions, location, design, implementation, and operation. In this article, a number of traditional watershed management structures and techniques are introduced as part of the larger collection of indigenous watershed management practices in Hormozgan province.
Hamid Moslemi, Reza Parandeh Faroji, Rasoul Mahdavi Najafabadi,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (9-2019)
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The managed recharge of groundwater is a stable and newfound technique which has already produced successful results and is expected to solve many of the problems of water resources, particularly in arid and semiarid areas. Artificial recharge of aquifers is considered as a strategy for the improvement of groundwater resources and their storage capacity to compensate for the damages inflicted on them. In Iran, funds are annually allocated to artificial recharge projects. Assessing the effects of these projects on aquifers is important, since positive results can expand the implementation of these projects. This investigation was carried out in the Lavar-e- Fin plains. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a dam on groundwater. We estimated groundwater level before and after construction of an earthen dam. We used library data, data collected by the Ministry of Energy and information recorded during fieldwork. We used water level data from 6 piezometric wells drilled by Regional Water Company of Hormozgan Province and monthly precipitation data during the period from 1995 to 2015. All piezometric wells were located downstream of the dam. The effect of the earthen dam on groundwater level changes were analyzed over a 20-year period and for before and after construction of the dam. The general trend of groundwater level and water level changes in each piezometer well was descending, despite the positive influence of the earthen dam. The results showed that the dam lowered the rate of water level drop. The average precipitation in the 9 years prior to the construction of the dam was 182 mm, while the average rainfall in the next 11 years was 155 mm. In general, the results of this study showed that in spite of the recent droughts and increased uptake of groundwater, Laver dam has had a positive effect on the water level of the aquifer. Although the dam has not been able to compensate for all the losses due to overharvesting, it has reduced the severity of the decline to a large extent.
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