Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
The Vetiver Grass Technology (VGT), in its most common form, is simply the
establishment of a narrow (less than 1 meter wide) live stiff grass barrier, in
Figure 1: Above left: contour bank; below left: banks divert the water; above right:
Figure Vetiver 1: Above hedges left: create contour banks bank; or terraces below left: over banks time; Below divert right:Vetiver the water; above hedges right: slow Vetiver the
hedges runoff create to increase banks infiltration, or terraces and over the time; water below remains right: in Vetiver the field hedges (Greenfield slow the J. C., run-off 1989) to
increase infiltration, and the water remains in the field (Greenfield 1989).
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