Review of assessing the impact of climate change on tank irrigation: vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies
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adaptive agricultural practices, climate resilience, rainwater harvesting technique, soil and water conservation, tank irrigation systems, water management strategiesAbstract
Tank irrigation systems, crucial for global food security, face significant threats from climate change, including rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased extreme weather events that impact water availability, compromising ecosystem conservation and agricultural productivity. This review article examines key strategies to enhance resilience in tank irrigation systems to address these challenges, ensuring sustainable development. In addition to bringing climate change impacts to urban communities, this survey raises one–of–a–kind difficulties, looking like mountains in which extreme slopes and precipitation designs intensify soil disintegration and make it difficult for water to be watered down. Strategies that work include using contour bunds, terracing, and checking dams to reduce runoff and retain more water. Vegetative barriers and afforestation improve slope stability, percolation pits and infiltration trenches increase groundwater recharge. By integrating these techniques, soil quality can be maintained and water availability can be resilient in urban and mountainous zones. Despite these strategies, challenges persist, including insufficient funding, limited institutional capacity, and inadequate climate information. Water quality becomes affected, and climate change becomes a big bane, like when the pH goes down due to acid rain in tank irrigation systems, which impacts soil health and crop productivity. These hazards are countered by lime treatment for acidity neutralization, buffer zone strategies facilitated with vegetative barriers to act as pollutants filters, and afforestation to reduce sulfur and nitrogen emissions. Furthermore, developing climate-resilient infrastructure, encouraging water-saving technologies such as precision irrigation, and enhancing climate information services for farmers are also required to address knowledge gaps. Sustainable tank irrigation systems need stakeholders, policymakers, and researchers to collaborate to ensure food security and environmental resilience.
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