RAINWATER MANAGEMENT FOR AGRICULTURE

AND LIFE IN THE HOUSEHOLD SCALE

Share by SUSILAWATI for Refresher Course
on Flood Management and Spate Irrigation

LAYOUT OF PRESENTATION
Introduction

Rainwater Management Concept

Rainwater Management for Agriculture Application and
Life Model in the Household Scale
Conclusion and Recommendation

References

INTRODUCTION

Indonesia-small islands
Tropical Rainfall:
- Enough intensity
- Variety duration
- Many problem: flooddrought-food security

No infiltration of rainfall
run-off flow directly to the
sea

Flood-droughtfood security

INTRODUCTION - BACK
GROUND

Population Economic
development Need water

Rainfall potential water

resources to be developed

East
Indonesia

Rainwater
management

Undeveloped region
Limited water
available

System-trap-rainwater
engineering

Small islands
dry area

Rainwater
management

Rainwater resources
Run-off directly
flowing to the sea

Water trap series

System-trap-rainwater
engineering in house-hold scale

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT CONCEPT

No drop comes out
from house yard

Rainfall
from
roof

Rainwater
management
Run-off from
house yard

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT CONCEPT

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT CONCEPT

PRINCIPLE OF SYSTEM-TRAPRAINWATER ENGINEERING

drain-traprainfall-water

Water
flowing

wells-traprainwater

Water
storage

FROM EMBUNG SYSTEM

TO RAINWATER MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

basin-sub basin scale

to household scale

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT FOR

AGRICULTURE IN THE HOUSEHOLD
SCALE

Cope the Food Security and

Mitigation of Flood-Drought Disaster

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT
WATER TRAP SYSTEM HOUSEHOLD SCALE

Water-trap series

Gully plug

Water-trap on
household scale

SYSTEM-TRAP-WATER
ENGINEERING FOR FOOD
SECURITY

dry-spell and
water-logging cases

system-trap-rainwater
engineering

Crop yield
reductioneven crop
failure

Water
storage

SEVERAL STEPS HAVE TO BE DONE FOR

DESIGNING RAINWATER MANAGEMENT
MODEL:

First step for surveying to the location, it must be

observe how the runoff flowing, so that can be decided
the location of the wells-trap-rainwater tank.
Second step for analysing the water availability, it must
be determined the catchment area of rainwater for each
wells-trap-rainwater tank, so it can be known the
volume of rainwater which can be captured and stored
in the well-tanks.
The next step is to be determined the dimensions of the
catchment wells-trap-rainwater tank in accordance with
the potential of rainwater that can be captured.
The final step is designing drawings of the catchment
wells-trap-rainwater tank.

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT IN HOUSEHOLD

SCALE

Home yard of
Mr. Hiller Liunesi

Catchment area
for stored tank

Flow run-off to
the stored tank

MITIGATION OF FLOOD-DROUGHT
THROUGHOUT RAINWATER MANAGEMENT IN
SMALL SCALE

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

For Irrigation

Rainwater
Management
in Household
Scale

For Food
Security

FloodDrought
Mitigation

REFERENCES
[1] Susilawati CL and Adri G. Sooai, Management
of rain-water system for agriculture during the dry
season to raise food security in small and rural
islands of Indonesia. Research Report (competitive
grant), Kupang, 2012.
[2] Djoko Kirmanto, Regulation of the Minister of
Public Works No. 06/PRT/M/ 2011 on Guidelines
for the Use of Water Resources (2011), 40-48.
[3] Susilawati CL, Rainwater Management for
Agriculture in Daieko Village Hawu Mehara
District, Sabu-Raijua Regency, NTT Province.
Journal SIPIL UNWIRA Vol 1 No.1 (2010), 51-58.

REFERENCES
[4] Susilawati CL, Water Resource Conservation
with the System of Water-trap Series to Cope Flood
and Drought on Small Island, Journal SIPIL
UNWIRA Vol 2 No.1 (2011) 30 -38.
[5] Susilawati CL, Rainwater Management Model
Development for Agriculture in the Savu Island
Semi-Arid Region, Civil Engineering Dimension
Vol. 14 No. 1 (2012) 36-41.
[6] Susilawati CL, Water-trap Series Engineering
with Vetiver Grass in Water Resources
Development which are Integrated and
Sustainable, KoNTekS 7 Proceeding (2013) A55A63.

REFERENCES
[7] Susilawati CL, Sustainable Technology
Innovation Inundated, Rain Water Management
Scope of Household, PIT-HATHI 31 Proceeding
(2014) 51-62.
[8] Susilawati CL, Implementation Study of
Technological Innovation in Addressing Problems
of Water Resources Management in NTT, PITHATHI 30 Proceeding (2013) 112-121.

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