Overview
- Discusses all components of the water balance of an irrigated area
- Presentation of new software CRIWAR 3.0
- This book will contribute to the effective management of one of Earth’s most widely needed, used and wasted natural resources: WATER
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
Irrigated agriculture produces about 40% of all food and fibre on about 16% of all cropped land. As such, irrigated agriculture is a productive user of resources; both in terms of yield per cropped area and in yield per volume of water consumed. Many irrigation projects, however, use (divert or withdraw) much more water than consumed by the crop. The non-consumed fraction of the water may cause a variety of undesirable effects ranging from water-logging and salinity within the irrigated area to downstram water pollution.
This book discusses all components of the water balance of an irrigated area; evapotranspiration (Ch.2), effective precipitation (Ch.3) and capillary rise from the groundwater table (Ch.4). Chapter 5 then combines all components into a water management strategy that balances actual evapotranspiration (and thus crop yield) with the groundwater balance of the irrigated area (for a substainable environment). Chapter 6 presents CRIWAR 3.0, a simulation program that combines all water balance components into a single simulation procedure. The chapter describes the use of the CRIWAR software for developing water requirement tables and other useful information based on the selected water management strategy. This version greatly expands upon the capabilities of previously published programs.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Requirements for Irrigation and the Environment
Authors: Marinus G. Bos, Rob A. L. Kselik, Richard G. Allen, David J. Molden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8948-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8947-3Published: 01 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8033-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8948-0Published: 23 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 174
Topics: Agriculture, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Environment, general, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution