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WATERSHED & BIOMASS MANAGEMENT

IMRAN KARIM
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REG: 08172
 OUTLINE

Introduction
History of watershed and biomass
management
Watershed and Biomass management types
Agencies work for watershed and water
management
Importance of watershed and biomass
management
 Introduction
• Watershed management is a term used to describe the process of implementing land use practices
and water management practices to protect and improve the quality of the water and other natural
resources within a watershed by managing the use of those land and water resources
comprehensively.
• The biomass can be converted to useful secondary energy forms such as heat, gaseous, solid,
organic chemical,, and liquid fuels. There are several alternative routes for producing useful
secondary energies from biomass.
 History of watershed management and biomass
management
• The approach of watershed management dates back to 2000 BCE and it has regularly improved with
time. The atharva veda text from 800 BCE shows watershed management by stating the appropriate
measures about water usage and its conservation.
• Benjamin franklin recognized the importance of watershed management in 1970 in the west (kumar et
al., 2014). Watershed management is aimed at sustainable dissemination of its resources and to
enhance the effectiveness of watershed function. Through the development of watershed
management, the concept of integrated watershed management (IWM) has become more pronounced
as it integrates several technical, social, institutional, and economic dimensions (german et al., 2007).
• Biomass predates us. There is a lot of evidence that supports the claims that we have utilized biomass
as an energy supply between 230,000 to 1.5 million years ago. We are going to look at some biomass
milestones throughout history.
 History of watershed management and
biomass management
• Burning biomass in ancient times – fire
• The history of biomass energy changed in the 1800s
• Ethanol
• Vegetable and fish oil
• Pine sap (naval stores) – turpentine
• The arrival of oil
• Transportation brings biomass energy back to life
• Crude oil and fossil fuels eclipsed bioenergy
• Biomass energy in the late 20th century
 Watershed management types

• Macro watershed (> 50,000 hect)

• Sub-watershed (10,000 to 50,000 hect)
• Milli-watershed (1000 to10000 hect)
• Micro watershed (100 to 1000 hect)
• Mini watershed (1-100 hect)
Biomass types
 Agencies work for watershed and biomass
management
• The national oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA)
• American national academies of water sciences (ANAWS)
• Environmental restoration, and water quality control (EPA, 1993).
• U.S. Energy information administration (EIA) the EIA is a statistical agency within the U.S.
Department of energy, providing data, forecasts, and analyses.
• U.S. Department of energy's vehicle technologies program
 Importance of watershed management

• It recharges the groundwater table

• Restores soil fertility and helps in soil conservation
• Restores water for drinking and other human purposes.
• It helps to fight climate change and promotes sustainable agriculture.
• Protects biodiversity of a region, if managed properly can restore biodiversity.
 Importance of biomass management

• Various agricultural residues such as grain dust, wheat straw and hazelnut shell are available in
turkey as the sources of biomass energy. Among the biomass energy sources, fuelwood seems to
be one of the most interesting because its share of the total energy production of turkey is high at
21% and the techniques for converting it to useful energy are not necessarily sophisticated.
• The total forest potential of turkey is around 935 million m3 with an annual growth of about 28
million m3 . turkey's annual biomass potential in 2001 was million tons of oil equivalent.
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