{"Page SDG":"SDG06 Clean water and sanitation","Page URL":"https://www.appropedia.org/Swale_Design_for_Watershed_Management","Page affiliations":"Category:Queens University, Kingston","Page authors":"User:B.Sexton","Page description":"According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the volume of freshwater resources is about 2.5 per cent of the total volume of water on earth. Of this freshwater, only 30 per cent is stored in the form of groundwater which accounts for 97 per cent of all freshwater potentially available for human consumption. However, much of the groundwater we rely on is slowly being depleted from underground aquifers through pumping. The overpumping of groundwater is causing water tables to fall across large areas of northern China, India, Pakistan, Iran, the Middle East, Mexico, and the western United States. Scientists have recently estimated in India that groundwater is being depleted across the country's north at a rate of 54 billion cubic meters per year. This is putting the nation's food supply and the region's 114 million people—are increasingly at risk.","Page image":"File:Aframe.jpg","Page is part of":"MECH425 Engineering for Sustainable Development","Page keywords":"Water, watershed magement, infiltration, swale, groundwater recharge, clay, rocks, leaves, rotten wood, straw, gravel, Groundwater recharge, Swales","Page language":"en","Page license":"CC-BY-SA-3.0","Page title":"Swale Design for Watershed Management","Page views":"1249","Page year":"Friday, 01-Jan-10 00:00:00 UTC","Project authors":"User:B.Sexton","Project coordinates":"44.305413888889, -76.428377777778","Project location":"Kingston, Canada","Project status":"Designed","Project thumb":"https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/thumb/1/15/Aframe.jpg/330px-Aframe.jpg","Project tools":"shovel","Modification date":"Friday, 28-Nov-25 14:27:14 UTC"}