Multiple Ponds Design for Water Storage

In our Agriculture for Everybody blog series, we will discuss the need for Multiple Ponds and the ways to achieve that. In a small farm, a single pond is dug at the lowest point or at an convenient place and it may be optimal for small farms just having a single pond. In a big or large farm, a single pond may not be the right choice as water stored need to be moved around to the crops in need by either options like trenches or pipes etc. If there is less rainfall, even a single pond of bigger size may not reach its full capacity and also evaporation and seepage will further reduce the water stored because of the bigger size. Multiple Ponds avoids above mentioned pitfalls and has other benefits which are mentioned below. Small Ponds (Multiple Ponds) get filled easily compared to a single big pond (even when rainfall is less) Small Ponds (Multiple Ponds) evaporation as well as the seepage is less as the size of the pond is less. This is true only when not all the ponds a...