Development of a rugged and cheap subsurface irrigation device for saving water and managing soil salinity

July 2024:  Please see here a video covering the proof of concept for a rugged and cheap subsurface irrigation device aimed at saving water and managing soil salinity

This work was funded by the University of Edinburgh’s Wellcome Trust Institutional Translational Partnership Award (iTPA) as part of the project "Food security and reforestation in Northern Kenya and the Sahel using saline groundwater or other saline water –Monitoring and networking".

Testing of evaporation and seeping rates plus Bottles prototypes
Testing of evaporation and seeping rates plus Bottles prototypes