Constructing Water Retention Structures

Syllabus tag: Kenya CBC | Grade 7 Agriculture and Nutrition | Strand 1.0 Conservation of Resources | Sub-Strand 1.2 Constructing Water Retention Structures (8 lessons)

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:

• Describe how surface run-off can be used in gardening
• Construct water retention structures to conserve surface run-off
• Adopt utilisation of surface run-off in gardening

Summary

Rainwater that runs off the surface of the land, instead of soaking in, is often lost -- unless it is deliberately captured. This topic covers water retention structures: simple constructions that capture surface run-off so it can support gardening instead of draining away unused.