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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / irrigation | | Spanish term or phrase: atajado | | Anybody got a good word in English for this? It is some kind of device or method for controlling irrigation in Bolivia. Thanks. JOHN PENNEY |
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| | small reservoir | Explanation:
atajado or atajada
Mano a Mano - [ Traducir esta página ]We know that an atajada (water reservoir) would hold rain water to channel to fields as our ancestors did. Please help us again. ...
www.manoamano.org/ - Bolivia
[PDF] Appropriate designs and appropriating irrigation systems ... Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
designing irrigation systems in Bolivia, that small-farmer irrigation ...... Storage facilities commonly built by small farmers are reservoirs, atajado reservoirs (small ..... In many irrigation systems with a small reservoir, such ...
www.library.wur.nl/wda/dissertations/dis3875.pdf
HTH!
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Note added at 16 mins (2010-05-13 15:50:38 GMT)
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or "water reservoir".
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Note added at 4 days (2010-05-18 14:55:19 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you John. Glad it helped. |
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  Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 20:47
| Grading comment Thanks. Small reservoir or small dam is good. JOHN
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