Kitchen Water for Kitchen Gardening
Author: Maaz Maqsood Hashmi (maazmh@hotmail.com)
Kitchen gardening is the small scale farming of vegetables mostly for domestic use or kitchen use. At present, the water availability the issue of every nations interest. Conservation of used water on small scale could be an strategy for sustainable livelihood resilience.
The buildings with marble or cemented flooring requires the cleaning with water. Mostly the water is drained in to the sewage lines. This water is good source for irrigating the kitchen gardening area. Below given figures explains the simple procedure to irrigate the small scale kitchen gardening areas and lawns using the used water or rain water.
Following model demonstrated the working;
a) Washing the floor with water, this water is then used for watering the lawns/vegetables:
b) Using a standard water bottle for transportation of used water to gardening area:
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