A few days ago, President Andrzej Duda presented plans to support the so-called small retention. Thousands of ponds are to be created in the country, where construction will be possible to receive up to 85 percent. funding. The question is, however, is this the best solution?
A few days ago a post appeared on Facebook showing an alternative example of small retention. In this case, it is a valve created by the farmer directly on the meadow belonging to him. In short, a valve built of random elements holds the flow of water, making the meadow better hydrated. If there were more such valves in the whole country, the effects of drought could be significantly reduced.
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Small retention and the law
However, according to Polish law, the creation of such constructions, even on the stream flowing through our plot, is prohibited as illegal land improvement works.
On the other hand, the topic appeared more or less at the same time as the idea of helping "small retention" with the help of "waterholes at every home." Since such a program is already underway and considerable money is being allocated to it, maybe it was actually worth considering introducing appropriate changes in the law that would allow Poles to effectively irrigate the vast areas they belong to.
Slovakia can be a model here
It is worth looking at the example of countries where the public awareness of the need to regulate water flow is much higher than in Poland.
Slovakia is such an example, a country covered in 60 percent by mountains. In Poland, downpours in the mountains do not cause major problems on a national scale, because the mountains occupy only 6 percent of the country's area. In Slovakia, however, floods would very often occur without proper water management.
For this reason, our southern neighbors are building numerous valves or dams on smaller and larger streams. As a result, they are able to hold behind each such valve even tens of cubic meters of water, which quickly soak into the soil or evaporate. The benefits of such activities are numerous: it is much easier to control the water when it is streams slightly higher in the mountains than when the rushing streams reach lower areas, at the same time the irrigation of the areas is much higher, thanks to which the risk of drought is much lower .
Maybe it would be good for someone to suggest such an idea to our authorities and even to the president. After all, the pre-election campaign is usually the best time for declarations, and if there was a declaration from the candidate who would later win, the chance of implementing the project would be ... non-zero.
This is what a real small retention should look like, not some ponds
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