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Aliasghar Montazar and Daniel Putnam
Drought and climate change have decreased water availability for agriculture, especially in the desert of southwestern USA. Efficiency enhancements in irrigation management aimed at conserving water are key to adjust to limits in water supply, improve pr...
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Brian Omondi Oduor, Miguel Ángel Campo-Bescós, Noemí Lana-Renault, Alberto Alfaro Echarri and Javier Casalí
The conversion of cultivated areas from rainfed to irrigated agriculture alters the watershed?s hydrology and could affect the water quality and quantity. This study examined how streamflow, nitrate load, and nitrate concentration changed after irrigatio...
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Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sánchez, Lisa Bossenbroek, Janpeter Schilling and Elisabeth Berger
Since the UN Water Conference in 1977, international debates have centered on global water scarcity and achieving sustainable development. In 1995, Morocco introduced a water policy to strengthen the country?s socio-economic development through irrigated...
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Cristina-Alejandra Villamar, Ismael Vera-Puerto, Diego Rivera and Felipe De la Hoz
Chile is an agricultural power, but also one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and water shortage. About 50% of the irrigated agriculture land in Chile is in the central zone, thanks to its agricultural-climatic characteristics that prov...
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Jamal Ahmadaali, Gholam-Abbas Barani, Kourosh Qaderi and Behzad Hessari
In arid and semi-arid areas, unsustainable development of irrigated agriculture has reduced the water level of large lakes such as Aral, Urmia, Hamoon, and Bakhtegan. Urmia Lake, as a hyper saline and very shallow lake, located in the northwest of Iran, ...
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Srinivasa Rao Pasala
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The mechanism of reforms is not given enough government funding and financial assistance to the agriculture sector. This impacted the conditions of cultivation, particularly in rural living conditions. The impact of free trade brought unstable prices, di...
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Pichu Rengasamy
The sustainability of irrigated agriculture depends on the quality of irrigation water used. The electrolyte concentration (EC) of irrigation water may lead to the accumulation of salts in the root zone layers and affect the physiological functions of th...
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Daniele Masseroni, Sandra Ricart, Francisco Ramirez de Cartagena, Joaquim Monserrat, José Manuel Gonçalves, Isabel de Lima, Arianna Facchi, Guido Sali, Claudio Gandolfi
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Traditionally, most irrigation practices in Southern Europe have been based on gravity-fed surface irrigation systems. Currently, these systems remain a relevant typology in the European Union (EU) member states of the Mediterranean areas, where it is of...
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Carmen Rupérez-Moreno, Julio Pérez-Sánchez, Javier Senent-Aparicio, Pilar Flores-Asenjo, Carmen Paz-Aparicio
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Droughts and climate change in regions with profitable irrigated agriculture will impact groundwater resources with associated direct and indirect impacts. In the integrated water resource management (IWRM), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) offers efficien...
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