Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Influence of Redox Potential on Selenium Distribution in Ground Water, Mendota, Western San Joaquin Valley, California
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report
Author: National Research Program of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Fiscal Year 1991
Author: Salinity and Drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California
Author: Andrew C. ChangPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400768516
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book documents the history of irrigated agriculture and drainage in the San Joaquin Valley, and describes the hydrology and biogeochemical processes of salts and selenium, remediation technologies for salts and trace elements and policy and management options. The contents are comprised of fourteen chapter-length independent treatises, each depicting with fresh perspective a distinctive salinity drainage topic. The opening chapters detail the evolution of irrigated agriculture, and depict the geochemical and hydrological processes that define the San Joaquin Valley, including the physics, chemistry, and biology attributes that impact water management policies and strategies. Next, the contributors address the biogeochemistry of selenium, the role of plants in absorbing it from soils, and the processes involved in retaining and concentrating dissolved salts in drainage water. Further chapters describe on-farm and plot-level irrigation provisions to reduce agricultural drainage outputs and examine their effects on plant performance. This volume offers realistic policy analysis of water management options for irrigated agriculture in the Valley and assesses their respective outcomes, if implemented. Also included is an international perspective on the sustainability of irrigated agriculture there.
The Great Thirst
Author: Norris Hundley Jr.Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520925298
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California. The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape. The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2697
Author: Publisher: Natural Resources Canada
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Detailed Study of Selenium and Other Constituents in Water, Bottom Sediment, Soil, Alfalfa, and Biota Associated with Irrigation Drainage in the Uncompahgre Project Area and in the Grand Valley, West-central Colorado, 1991-93
Author: David Louis ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Detailed Study Of Selenium and Other Constituents In Water, Bottom Sediment, Soil, Alfalfa, and Biota, Etc., U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4138, 1996
Author: New Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Author: