ICARDA and Water Harvesting

Examples of Farming Systems Research at Icarda

Bioinspired Breathable Architecture for Water Harvesting

Thuja plicata is a coniferous tree which displays remarkable water channelling properties. In this article, an easily fabricated mesh inspired by the hierarchical macro surface structure of Thuja plicata branchlets is described which emulates this efficient water collection behaviour. The key parameters are shown to be the pore size, pore angle, mesh rotation, tilt angle (branch droop) and laye...

Micro-Catchment Rain Water Harvesting Systems and fruit seedlings: Strategies and Research challenges

     The use of Rain-Water Harvesting (RWH) systems for fruit seedling planting in addition to helping to make optimal use of runoff and soil and water conservation, will also help the production of agricultural and horticultural products. Accordingly, this study has focused on the investigation of the effects of RWH systems on the growth of fruit seedlings and their establishment, especially i...

Investigation of Fresh Water Harvesting from Playa’s Wetlands

Playas are low-lands which is considered to be the locations of accumulation of superficial and ground waters fromhigher elevations and these waters have different types of salts and various salinity level. Therefore, because of lack ofrainfall and fresh-water both for human and animal useage or even for plants, it is needed to apply proper methods toharvest fresh water from these saline-waters...

Design and engineering of water-soluble light-harvesting protein maquettes

The Johnson Research Foundation and Dep University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, med.upenn.edu The ARC Centre of Excellence for Electroma Research Institute, University of Wollongong N Carolina State University, Department of University of Otago, Department of Chemis † Electronic supplementary information and supplementary Fig. S1–10. See DOI: 1 ‡ These authors contributed equally to th Cite t...