Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

Inefficient use of water represents a major source of direct cost of water production, but especially of excessive … the rules of good practice that have been disseminated. This work aims to contribute directly to the reduction of water … consumption and indirectly to the huge amount of energy used to pump water from its reserves and then to treat and make it …