There is an acknowledged gap between future water demand and supply available in Arizona. In some parts of Arizona, the gap exists today, where water users have been living on groundwater for a while, often depleting what can be thought of as their water savings account. In other places, active w... Read More
Practical plans for agricultural water use within multiobjective frameworks require feasible solutions that meet the objectives of competing interests and this is the root of common decision problems that plague water resources systems. To find the best solutions among the set of feasible s... Read More
Extensive research in the 20th century explored the potential for mitigation of drought by applying polymers (film antitranspirants) to leaves to reduce water loss. It was concluded that film antitranspirants are of limited usefulness, since the polymers reduced photosynthesis (in addition to tra... Read More
Water reuse, particularly reuse of treated wastewater, has been in discussion for a number of decades as municipalities and farmers have viewed a valuable resource flowing back into the river after going through two or three levels of treatment. Resistance in reuse comes from a cultural idea of n... Read More
Inefficient farm-level water management aggravates groundwater fluctuation and salt accumulation particularly in arid and semi-arid irrigated agriculture. Inappropriate water management practices in the Harran Plain are a good example. A study was carried out to investigate the effect of groundwa... Read More
The groundwater in Pakistani sandy deserts is generally highly saline and not suitable for drinking. However, it can be utilized for growing beneficial salt-tolerant plants. To explore the potential of desert land for farm production two crops of barley and mustard were cultivated on coarse- and ... Read More
Using alternative water resources such as tertiary treated sewage wastewater is considered very important to produce crops (e.g., green forage) due to irrigation water shortage, especially in arid and semiarid regions like Jordan. Moreover, growing forage
... Read MoreOlive is a major tree crop in the Mediterranean region, where more than 90% of the world's olive oil is produced. Irrigation of olives with saline water will inevitably increase in the future in the Mediterranean due to negative effects of population grow
... Read MoreThe reuse of treated water for agricultural irrigation is considered a promising option in regions facing water scarcity problems and there is an increasing number of reuse projects going on in southern European countries. The aim of this paper is to esti
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