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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Kansas Irrigation Guide
Author: Kansas Irrigation Guide
Author: Planning Farm Irrigation Systems
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Colorado High Plains Irrigation Practices Guide
Author: SCS National Engineering Handbook
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Category : Agricultural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Running Out
Author: Lucas BessirePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
EPA-600/2
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management
Author: Saeid EslamianPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 100086524X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Ever-increasing population growth has caused a proportional increased demand for water, and existing water sources are depleting day by day. Moreover, with the impact of climate change, the rates of rainfall in many regions have experienced a higher degree of variability. In many cities, government utilities have been struggling to maintain sufficient water for the residents and other users. The Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management: Irrigation Methods examines and analyzes irrigated ecosystems in which water storage, applications, or drainage volumes are artificially controlled in the landscape and the spatial domain of processes varies from micrometers to tens of kilometers, while the temporal domain spans from seconds to centuries. The continuum science of irrigation hydrology includes the surface, subsurface (unsaturated and groundwater systems), atmospheric, and plant subsystems. Further, the book addresses the best practices for various types of irrigation methods including pressure, smart, surface, and subsurface, and presents solutions for water scarcity and soil salinity in irrigation. Features: Offers water-saving strategies to increase the judicious use of scarce water resources Presents strategies to maximize agricultural yield per unit of water used for different regions Compares irrigation methods to offset changing weather patterns and impacts of climate change