Communal reservoirs

The technology consists of the installation of multi-family micro-reservoirs connected to collective parcel irrigation systems, which are managed by irrigation committees. The capacity of these reservoirs depends on the amount of area to be irrigated; the stored water is conducted through the catchment channels, which can be made of earth or lined with concrete; the stored water is conducted through a main pipeline, and then diverted through secondary pipelines to the hydrants of the plots, where it is connected to the irrigation systems of each plot. Since it is a technology in which several families are involved, the success of the practice depends on the development of an efficient irrigation shift distribution plan. To this end, committees are formed to define the irrigation pattern, which is governed by a design based on shifts (distribution) based on the number of irrigators who benefit from the waters of the micro-reservoir.