dambo

The dambo was the only source of water for miles around, so everyone depended on it to live - including the goats and cows, who often relieved themselves while drinking.

William Kamkwamba: In Malawi, No More Sharing Water With Goats 2009

Until I was nine years old, we got all of our drinking water from the spring-fed marsh behind our house, something we called the dambo.

William Kamkwamba: In Malawi, No More Sharing Water With Goats 2009

In the wet season the dambo was always full, but dangerous.

William Kamkwamba: In Malawi, No More Sharing Water With Goats 2009

Women like my mother would wake up before the cock even crowed - around 4 a.m. - hoping to reach the dambo before the line stretched into the tall elephant grass.

William Kamkwamba: In Malawi, No More Sharing Water With Goats 2009

In the dry season, the dambo was only full of water in the morning, and by afternoon, all the women and pigs and goats had drunk it dry.

William Kamkwamba: In Malawi, No More Sharing Water With Goats 2009

Major soil types include the black clays (vertisols) and sandy clays commonly found in the Kafue basin and the dambo areas.

Water profile of Zambia 2007

Four programmatic paths have been identified in which specific sub-programs are elaborated: enabling the environment (marketing, support services, capacity building, legislation); alternatives to formal irrigation (water harvesting, dambo development); improving existing assets (rehabilitation and upgrading, infrastructure upgrade, irrigation management transfer); promoting new investment (public/private development, new infrastructure).

Water profile of Zambia 2007

Focuses on soils and water, and emphasizes the importance of dambo gardens to households.

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I want to see Mike Fisher and sleep in a grass roofed hut in a low dambo surrounded by impala and blue balled vervet monkeys.

Neanderpundit 2009

As one the villagers point toward the dambo, or seasonal river.

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