Resources Tagged: Water Resources Development
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Successful agricultural development projects usually involve farmers as an essential step in the process. This planning guide is intended for all who are concerned with irrigation development. This guide suggests the needs and benefits of involving farmers, gives principles and guidelines for...
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The following pages are dedicated to water. The discussions of water-related issues are much broader, however, than the substance itself.
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2003-01-01 Many local initiatives have been started, and these are beginning to change the way we think about and use water. However, these ideas need to spread. This is the objective of this book, which brings together information on local action in water management, including activities undertaken by...
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This book takes a step back looking at the 'way' we think rather than 'what' we think about water. The first part of the book is really examining the process of innovative thinking needed to escape from the traditional water conflickts. The second part redefines the water crisis showing how...
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This paper provides an overview of innovative options for developing and using water for food production in sub-Saharan Africa in light of the growing scarcity and competition for wat er resources. These options include rainwater harvesting, selective development of wetlands for agriculture,...
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1982-01-01 Notebook with issues of "Water for the World" technical reports, illustrated
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The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by aTyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the...
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This bulletin is written for all concerned with land evaluation or irrigation planning, and is divided into two parts. Part one explains the recommended procedures of land evaluation and land suitability classification for irrigated agriculture and is based on the FAO Framework for Land...
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2007-03-01 This publication provides a compendium of 100 technologies, practices and approaches for agricultural water management under smallholder agriculture in the ESA. Each intervention is described in brief, the design specifications, and where in the region it may be found. 52 pages, illustrated,...
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This booklet has been written for community development workers in developing countries who are not technicians in the area of water resources. It is meant to serve as a general guide when planning environmentally sound small-scale water projects, that is, projects which protect and conserve...