Contemporary challenges for irrigation and drainage - Burns, Joseph I., editor; Anderson, Susan S., editor; U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, publisher (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999)
Proceedings from the USCID 14th technical conference on irrigation, drainage and flood control
Technical conference on irrigation, drainage and flood control
IID/MWD Water Conservation Program - improved irrigation water management through system automation -- On-farm water measurement and evaluation -- IID Water Information System - irrigation data base principles and management -- Improved irrigation water management - a direct benefit of a water conservation program -- McClusky Canal improvements -- Implementation of a district management system in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas -- Use and productivity of Egypt's Nile water -- Definitive basin water management -- Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support (AWARDS) -- Progress on canal automation for water delivery modernization -- Physical and operational improvements that aid modernization of irrigation delivery systems -- Estimating the costs of farm-level and district efforts to achieve selenium load targets -- Strategies for utilizing shallow ground water in arid areas -- Conjunctive and exclusive use of shallow groundwater for irrigation in spring wheat -- The affect of urbanization on the cost of operating an irrigation district or canal company -- An economic perspective on the environmental costs and benefits of irrigated agriculture -- Improving water properties to increase infiltration characteristics -- Improved software for design of long-throated flumes.
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Presented at Contemporary challenges for irrigation and drainage: proceedings from the USCID 14th technical conference on irrigation, drainage and flood control held on June 3-6, 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Keywords: irrigation engineering; environment; drainage; conservation; modernization; rehabilitation; water quality management