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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Twelfth International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, Fort Collins, USA, 28 May - 2 June 1984
Author: Transactions - Congress on Irrigation and Drainage
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Category : Congress on Irrigation and Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Vols. for 2002 accompanied by CD-ROM containing v.2 of the congress, and another CD-ROM containing the work of the 18th congress.
Irrigation and Power
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Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Qanat
Author: Dale LightfootPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755650816
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature. For 3,000 years, they have made life possible in impossible places and still sustain life and livelihoods in many countries today. After 30 years of field research, Dale Lightfoot provides the first comprehensive study of the qanat and sheds new light on their unique locations and distribution, their origins and history, their ecology, current status and use. Qanats are remarkably engineered underground aqueducts, using gravity to bring water to villages and towns where reliable flowing surface water is scarce or absent. Although an ancient technology, more than 46,000 of them still flow around the world today, with their sustainable nature making them a focus of renewed interest. Richly illustrated with images and a series of original maps, this is the most complete record to date of the locations and distribution of qanats worldwide, including examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, China, India, Mexico and South America.
World Water
Author: Chronique de l'U.G.G.I.
Author: International Union of Geodesy and GeophysicsPublisher:
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Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Markets for Water
Author: K. William EasterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0585320888
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world. It is possible, for example, for a water market to fail, and for the transaction costs in water markets to be excessive. Too often water trading is banned because the water resources have been developed with public funds and the water agencies do not want to lose control over water. There is also a concern that poor farmers or households will be disadvantaged by water trading. These concerns about public resources and the poor are not very different from those that have been voiced in the past about land sales. The problem is that in many cases the poor already have limited access to resources, but this limit is not due to water trading. In fact, water trading is likely to expand the access to water for many small-scale farmers. Markets for Water: Potential and Performance provides an analytical framework for water market establishment. It develops the necessary conditions for water markets and illustrates how they can improve both water management and economic efficiency. Finally, the book gives readers an up-to-date picture of what we have learned about water markets in a wide range of countries, from the US to Chile and India.
Guidelines on the Construction of Horizontal Subsurface Drainage Systems
Author: Bart SchultzPublisher:
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Category : Subsurface drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Vol. 25, no. 1 contains the society's Lincoln Chapter's Resource conservation glossary.