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Rainfall harvesting has the twofold aim of collecting run-off from existing hard surfaces such as rock faces, and (more frequently) of increasing run-off from an area of soil by applying a sealant. The water collected is led either to a storage facility or directly to an irrigated area. The use of harvested water is sometimes termed run-off farming.
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Whitmore, J.S. (2000). Water Harvesting. In: Drought Management on Farmland. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9562-9_19
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