We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized rural households of north-western Bangladesh using a quasi-experimental analysis. A government organization - the Barindra Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) - established...

The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different sectors - especially irrigated agriculture and related local water systems and drainage - poses a challenge in an effort to improve water quality and sanitation. In rural and...

Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify the impacts on global food production. This paper...

This paper presents an irrigation farm management tool, SALMOD (Salinity And Leaching Model for Optimal irrigation Development), that calculates the profit maximizing crop enterprise composition and irrigation management options for farm specific soil type, drainage status and irrigation system...

Models like SWAP, HYDRUS and SALTMED compute crop water uptake under osmotic stress with a dimensionless piecewise linear or S-shaped reduction function. Parameters for these functions, to reduce water uptake, corresponds normally to the Maas and Hoffman salinity threshold and slope values....

The primary aim of this study was to produce maps of various types of risk arising from the use of surface and ground water for irrigation (viz., soil degradation, plant nutritional disorders, clogging of irrigation systems and reservoir problems). The maps were obtained as the additive result...