AgroaldeaTHE SECOND BIENNIAL OF CANARY EXPOSES THIS DEVICE CREATED BY EMILIO NAVARRO.
Navigate upstream and preach in the desert has been what has marked much of the life of Emilio Navarro, creator of the patent of the autonomous system of irrigation.
Love that epitomizes this villager by the land and the recovery of the lost ground by the drastic deforestation that suffered this island, It sharpened his wits to create this gadget by applying criteria of sustainability and much recycling.
If anything characterises this system it is the non-dependence of any energy source. Applying the principle of Archimedes he invested a part of it until you get a single drop of water can give life to acres of land.
Their reforestation obtained results of the 99,99%. Emilio Navarro points out that "repopulate without supplying the plant what more need to survive, is waste of money". And in this sense it is very clear: If half of the reforestation carried out on this island in the last twenty years have been successful, This island would be an orchard.
However, the Administration annually invests a significant amount of resources in reforestation areas whose results leave much to be desired. As nobody is a Prophet in his own land, Emilio Navarro had to overcome their particular ordeal until technicians and politicians believe in the results of their work.
His "little glory", as he called, It has been the invitation to participate in the second biennial of the Canary Islands, The chasm to the Summit, that explained the work done from the small company that runs: Agroforestry Atlantis.
From the contribution in this project, you will travel over much of the peninsula and Europe, contacts and invitations and several NGO's national and international to participate in several pilot projects to reforest areas sub-Saharan Sahel arrived, on the African continent.
Emilio Navarro does not fix in this recognition and more focused all their energy on what you are passionate about in life: that the planet recover what the ambition of the human being has taken him.
However, Emilio Navarro says that in the Canary Islands there is much work to do: Sometimes it is not so much the field work, but that needs to be done in the offices of technicians and politicians so that they understand the need to continue not wasting resources that are all.
Before you consider an intervention in space, Emilio analyses the possibilities of field and, which zahorí, smells and tracks the drop of water that will allow life to the repopulation. Once found drop of life He proceeds to build a reservoir that stores the set of drops that at the end of the week will be litres. It is then when installed your autonomous system of irrigation.
Self-standing of irrigation system.
To the naked eye when someone is approaching for the first time this device, No one should imagine that you get the results that manages and operates without any power, non other than the own water level.
According to Navarro: the principle of the system is very simple. Anyone could have invented it. What I did was to observe the evolution of the water drop and how to get it to plants in the absences in the headwaters of Gu-Guy.
For the rest it hired good dose of ingenuity, recycling and DIY to manufacture the prototype from which came the patent.
In essence the self-contained irrigation system consists of a mechanism whose operation is similar to the of a cistern. The difference with the tank is that it does not need who activate it. A circuit of hoses and a container with counterweights are the elements that compose the system.
The autonomous system of irrigation has more applications apart from the reforestation. It can be adapted for nurseries, gardens and small greenhouses.
Emilio Navarro hope is that, regardless of who makes it, changing methods of reforestation in the Canary Islands and will continue not wasting resources, seeds, plants, Labor and means that, In sum, with the results that give, they more harm to the environment than what actually favors it.