Providing Water for Irrigation

Every DMS Centres provides essential services to needy communities, for the most part these communities are located in rural areas subject to natural and other disasters, but each has a common thread, they tend to be located near a water course.

Another common thread is soil erosion through years of neglet,climate change,drought, and infestation, but worse still, poor or no water management to irrigate potentailly high yield agricultural land.

Every DMS Centre must have have an economic model that will ensure that DMS programs are sustainable over the long term and DMS helps local communities establish the necessary infrastructure to take maximum advantage of water and land usage.

This provides the seeds for farming, self-sustainability and market opportunity with the sale of produce to larger regional markets.

 DMS employs state-of-the-art technology and agricultural methods to turn arid land into highly productive agricultural land and in this way bring wealth and change to local communities.      

Villa Hermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Establishment of a DMS Centre in the City of Villa Hermosa, to provide local community-based  training in floodplain management and disaster mitigation programs including the provision of safe clean drinking water.

Concurrent with these programs the DMS Centre envisages the creation of an irrigation program of arable land in and around Villa Hermosa with the aim of increasing crop yields that can contribute to the long-term sustainability of disaster mitigation programs envisaged for the area.

Villa Hermosa and the entire State of Tabasco was the subject of exceptionally severe flooding in October of 2007, and has received the attention of the Mexican Federal Government and a number of United Nations agencies and international and local NGO’s.

The DMS Foundation was invited by the State Government of Tabasco, to offer its humanitarian programs to mitigate losses as a result of flooding and other disasters, to ensure that its population can be kept out of harms-way in the event of floods and other disasters in the future..

The DMS Foundation is working in partnership with other local NGOs to implement this program in Mexico.       

Did You Know?? 

About 70% of the earth is covered in water;

Freshwater lakes and rivers, ice and snow, and underground aquifers hold only 2.5% of the world’s water. By comparison, saltwater oceans and seas contain 97.5% of the world’s water supply;

68.9% of the earth’s fresh water exists in the form of glaciers and permanent snow cover, 30.8% is groundwater, including soil moisture, swamp water and permafrost and only 0.3% of total global freshwater is stored in lakes and rivers;   

Canada has about 25% of the world’s wetlands – the largest wetland area in the world;

Wetlands totaling an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometres cover about 14% of the land area of Canada

Today, around 3,800 cubic kilometers of fresh water is withdrawn annually from the world’s lakes, rivers and aquifers—a number double the volume extracted 50 years ago. 

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