Bio-dykes: saving communities and instilling confidence in them
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · View from the field: how community-built bio-dykes are protecting rural villages and livelihoods from flooding in Nepal. This appropriate and local technology is improving communites’ resilience to flood events from unpredictable and changeable rivers.
How to Build a Bio-dyke | ECHOcommunity.org
WEBJun 1, 2024 · How to build a bio-dyke for protection against floods. This is a low-cost flood defence that not only protects adjacent fields but can produce additional crops across its own surface area. This uses material from "Practical Action" with kind permission.
WEBBio-dykes use local skills and resources that combine traditional grey infrastructure with natural elements to create cheaper, sustainable, and locally-appropriate solutions to increasing threat of floods, generating social and environmental benefits.
WEBto be a practical solution. A bio-dyke is an alternative form of defence that relies on low-cost, readily available resources such as soil, sand, sacks, bamboo, and a mixture of fast-growing grasses and native trees. Bio-dykes are not appropriate for places that regularly receive excessive rainfall or flooding, but in many
Bio-dyke, an environment friendly solution to protect river banks
WEBBio-dyke is a bio engineering measure to manage and control flood water movement such as redirecting flood run-off through the use of flood walls and flood gates.
Title: Bio-dykes; Unlocking ingenious nature based solution to …
WEBDescription: Bio-dyke is a bio engineering measure to manage and control flood water movement such as redirecting flood run-off through the use of flood walls and flood gates. This technology for controlling riverine floods is useful when there is no immediate need of heavy engineering works or a community is unable to afford construction of ...
Bio-dykes: Working with nature to reduce flood losses
WEBBio-dykes: Working with nature to reduce flood losses - Practical Action. Abstract. The Terai plains in Nepal are inhabited by indigenous communities farming soils enriched by annual floods. Climate change is making these floods more destructive.
WEBbrief that describes the construction methodologies of building bio-dykes using local resources in a participatory manner, which included finance, budgeting and long term sustainability.
Adapting to a Changing Climate Through Nature-Based Solutions
WEBBio-dyke is a bioengineering measure to manage and control flood water movement such as redirecting flood runoff through the use of flood walls and flood gates. Riverine floods, landslide mitigation, hilly area stabilization, and prevents soil erosion
WEBThe community was hit by damaging floods in 2008, 2009 and 2014 that washed away crops, destroyed houses and removed top soil, depositing in its place gravel, stones, …