What can farmers do to improve water relations in Poland? The capricious and somewhat delayed spring of 2021 has significantly delayed plant vegetation. Orchardists are concerned about frosts, with many opting to carry out installations and over-crown sprinkler treatments, widely regarded as the surest way to protect buds. Fortunately, the heavy snowfall provided a sufficient…
For several years now, there has been much talk in Poland of a worsening water shortage. Poland is one of the countries with the smallest water resources in the entire European Union. Poland has an average of 1 600 m3 of water per inhabitant per year, but during periods of drought this average drops to…
Not so long ago, we associated water shortages mainly with countries in the Global South. Today, water problems affect virtually all of us. According to UN figures, one in three people in the world does not have access to drinking water, and this is only the beginning of the fight against global drought. Unassuming-looking flower…
Water is one of the key natural resources that determines life in the universe, at least biological life that science has so far recognised. Recent NASA reports inform us of the discovery of massive salt lakes hidden beneath the surface of Martian ice caps – life may exist there too. But let’s return to Earth….
Dealing with the issue of climate change in the context of food production, the stability of agricultural ecosystems, I have noticed that there is very little discussion of the two key pieces of this puzzle. Soil and water form the basis of food production around the world In addition, they are inextricably linked by interrelationships…
High retention is not the way to deal with drought – culverts, dams, artificial lakes, dry and wet retention. Other solutions must be resorted to. The subject of water retention ‘springs up’ at almost every flood and during periods of drought. In the former case, we usually complain about an excess of water, in the…
The premise of the MIKRORETENTION programme, designed to support small-scale retention measures, speaks of facilities with a volume of tens of thousands of m³ and an area of up to 1 ha. For a larger catchment area, these volumes are negligible, but in a source area or a small catchment area of a top-order tributary,…
Improve or meliorate? Few today remember that, according to Latin etymology, the word “land reclamation” means “improvement.” The origins of land reclamation activities in our country date back to the 12th century, when part of the fertile lands in the Vistula delta were embanked, initiating a high agricultural culture in the Zulawy Wislane area. Around…
Both flood and drought news are cause for concern. Our society has quickly forgotten the fact that both of these deviations from the average are parts of the hydrological cycle and, as such, are a very important component in shaping the diversity of nature around. It is difficult to find a moment in recent history…
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