You have likely understood that soil can provide a functioning and healthy ecosystem to keep humans, animals, plants, and other organisms alive. One of its abilities is to permit water through the soil.

Water has a special reaction in soil because it follows and defies gravity. When it drains the soil out due to gravity, it moves up from wet to dry parts through capillary action. This is how a healthy soul makes the flow better.

Gravity is the reason why snow or rain water drains through the soul. Soil can better absorb rainfall and prevent flooding and erosion when water can infiltrate faster. Infiltrated water can better support soil life, so it results in a more functional ecosystem. This means that more infiltrated rainwater can support healthy soil life even when there is insufficient rain. Water infiltrated in the soil can restore aquifers, so there are fewer waterways getting polluted, flooding, and wildfires.

Moreover, farmers benefit from this because healthy soil means better production of crops and weather and economic resiliency.

Our aim in our soil management program is to make lives better. Thinking of measures such as learning more about water infiltration to improve soil is complicated, so we pick soil health indicators that are significant to the structure and function of soil. One of these indicators is water infiltration. There is relative sensitivity to management and associated with soil’s physical, biological, and chemical parameters.

There is less water infiltration, and capillary action when activities done causes earthworm and pores channels to disengage, such as land tillage. Methods that support water movement and the life of the soil are planting diverse crops through intercropping, crop rotations, and counting the maximum number of days up of living roots and plants.

Putting manure, compost, and other organic elements aids the creation of organic matter, which isolates carbon and makes additional sponges in the soil. Pores are compressed, the air is squeezed out, and water is prevented from infiltrating the soul if there is much traffic on the soil. This is especially true when the soil is barren.