MINIMIZING WATER STRESS AND IMPROVING WATER RESOURCES
Improving restricted rainfall infiltration
Infiltration depends on there being sufficient porosity in the surface soil for rainfall to infiltrate, and in the subsoil and parent material (if shallow) for rainwater to percolate. When the porosity of the surface soil is too low to accept rainfall, or subsoil porosity is too low to allow rainwater percolation (i.e. permeability is too slow), then infiltration will be restricted and rainwater will be lost as runoff.
