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This paper looks at the Indus Basin Water Strategy for Pakistan. It begins with a historical overview of the Indus … paper concludes that Pakistan should focus on (1) Creating Additional Surface Storage, (2) Preserving surface water …), (4) Encouraging general efficiency of irrigation water use (through improved land management techniques), (5) Enhancing …
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long time, but the first steps to combat drought took just in the mid twentieth century when there was planted windbreak …-1965, when work began planning for irrigation. In the period 1967-1989, were equipped more than 420 thousand hectares … an uncertain future while irrigation in Dobrogea is the main factor that depends on achieving high and safe yields. …
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Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a …. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking … water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women and young girls are forced to spend hours collecting and carrying water …
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water users. The analysis is made at sectoral level and is particularized for the irrigation system from Cazasu …In Romania, due to weather conditions, irrigation is of utmost importance for the normal development of crops. The … infrastructure serving the irrigation systems, mostly designed in the period of command economy, has been adapted to the new land …
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many of the import competing sectors in Maroccan agriculture are protected while water in irrigated agriculture is … priced below its marginal value product. Establishing a water market is this pre-trade reform environment can be welfare … decreasing. Further, as the shadow price of water is sensitive to the crops protected by trade policy, farmers growing crops …
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Although the physical aspects and agrocultural impacts of drought and government and donor responses as well as … household coping and survival strategies in the event of drought have been well studied, little research has occurred on either …
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geführt. Durch diese Bodenversalzung werden weite Flächen für die Landwirtschaft unbrauchbar. Sie sind nur durch hohen Aufwand …
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An article about the directions and priorities of the regional policy of the state to regulate the regional water … consumption in the Omsk region. The authors analyze the situation with the water consumption in China, Kazakhstan and the Russian …
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Water resource management policies worldwide are at a crossroads. On the one hand, a remarkable consensus on the …. This document describes the distinctive experience of water reform in the state of Victoria, Australia, which has been a … engaged in the water reform process throughout the world. …
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