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Product Description: To properly conserve, restore and manage riverine ecosystems and the services they provide, it is pertinent to understand their functional dynamics. Growing human populations and high dependency on natural resources in developing countries have exerted pressure on land and water resources...read more

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9781138028159 | CRC Pr I Llc, October 13, 2015, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: To properly conserve, restore and manage riverine ecosystems and the services they provide, it is pertinent to understand their functional dynamics.

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Product Description: The prospects for the future are clear. Agriculture will have to respond to changing patterns of demand for food and combat food insecurity and poverty amongst marginalized communities. In so doing, agriculture will have to compete for scarce water with other users and reduce pressure on the water environment...read more

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9781138027664, titled "Agricultural Water Productivity Optimization for Irrigated Teff (Eragrostic Tef) in a Water Scarce Semi-Arid Region of Ethiopia" | CRC Pr I Llc, March 20, 2015, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The prospects for the future are clear.

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Product Description: Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form...read more
By Jonathan Kaledin (editor)

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9780415730976 | Routledge, May 7, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres.

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By Kimberly Etingoff (editor)

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9781771880732 | Taylor & Francis, August 19, 2014, cover price $149.95

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Product Description: Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources. Management of the rivers and the surrounding landscape is one of the important tasks for today and for the foreseeable future. Lessons learned from centuries of management (and mismanagement) have been distilled into principles and practices which form the subject matter for this book...read more
By Katherine A. Daniell (editor), Hugh M. Milner (editor) and Victor R. Squires (editor)

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9781466579620 | CRC Pr I Llc, July 10, 2014, cover price $162.95 | About this edition: Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources.

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Product Description: This cluster of books presents innovative and nuanced knowledge on water resources, based on detailed case studies from South Asia―India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In providing comprehensive analyses of the existing economic, demographic and ideological contexts in which water policies are framed and implemented, the volumes argue for alternative, informed and integrated approaches towards efficient management and equitable distribution of water...read more
By Rajinadra Ariyabandu (editor), N. C. Narayanan (editor) and S. Parasuraman (editor)

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9780415735940 | Box edition (Routledge India, June 19, 2014), cover price $304.00 | About this edition: This cluster of books presents innovative and nuanced knowledge on water resources, based on detailed case studies from South Asia―India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

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Product Description: It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required. This "nexus" is now the focus of major attention by researchers, policy-makers and practitioners...read more
By M. V. K. Sivamohan (editor)

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9780415733038 | Routledge, April 9, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required.

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Product Description: This book analyzes water policies in South Asia from the perspective of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). It seeks to address the problems of water scarcity, conflict and pollution resulting from the gross mismanagement and over-exploitation of this finite resource...read more
By Sreoshi Singh (editor)

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9780415710596 | Taylor & Francis, September 5, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book analyzes water policies in South Asia from the perspective of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).

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Documents the history of the hidden High Plains aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains between Texas and Colorado, citing its role in irrigation and agriculture while explaining the growing threat that it may run dry, a circumstance that would revert the Great Plains to its original desert-like climate. Reprint.

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9780393058420 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A history of the Ogallala aquifer traces its formation after the retreat of the glaciers; its use by ancient tribes, center-pivot sprinkler systems, and sophisticated extraction technologies; and the risk factors for its eventual drying out.

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9780881507362 | Reprint edition (Countryman Pr, July 1, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Documents the history of the hidden High Plains aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains between Texas and Colorado, citing its role in irrigation and agriculture while explaining the growing threat that it may run dry, a circumstance that would revert the Great Plains to its original desert-like climate.

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Product Description: A comprehensive engineering guide to theory and design practices for the control, utilization, and management of water in agriculture, with emphasis on scientific principles. Integrates into a single volume engineering practices for solving problems relating to erosion control, flood control, drainage, and irrigation...read more

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9780471030782 | 3 sub edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 1, 1981), cover price $78.85 | About this edition: A comprehensive engineering guide to theory and design practices for the control, utilization, and management of water in agriculture, with emphasis on scientific principles.

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Product Description: The author of the classic, best-selling book on ponds presents new tips, techniques, and hundreds of resources in this updated, expanded guide.Earth Ponds Sourcebook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference book for pond-related books and periodicals; aquaculture manufacturers and suppliers; advocacy groups and organizations; water gardening suppliers, botanical gardeners, and government organizations...read more

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9780881506129 | Revised edition (Countryman Pr, June 1, 2004), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The author of the classic, best-selling book on ponds presents new tips, techniques, and hundreds of resources in this updated, expanded guide.
9780881503586 | Countryman Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Demonstrates how to site, plan, dig, and maintain a pond, identifies common problems, and gives advice on raising fish.

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Product Description: *First title in a major new series*Addresses improving water productivity to relieve problems of scarcity and competition to provide for food and environmental security*Draws from scientists having a multitude of disciplines to approach this important problemIn a large number of developing countries, policy makers and researchers are increasingly aware of the conflicting demands on water, and look at agriculture to be more effective in its use of water...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Randolph Barker (editor), J. W. Kijne (editor), Jacob W. Kijne (editor) and D. J. Molden (editor)

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9780851996691 | C A B Intl, February 19, 2004, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: *First title in a major new series*Addresses improving water productivity to relieve problems of scarcity and competition to provide for food and environmental security*Draws from scientists having a multitude of disciplines to approach this important problemIn a large number of developing countries, policy makers and researchers are increasingly aware of the conflicting demands on water, and look at agriculture to be more effective in its use of water.

By P. M. Haygarth (editor) and Shawn C. Jarvis (editor)

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9780851995458 | C A B Intl, December 19, 2002, cover price $270.00

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Product Description: From Reclamation to Sustainability tells the story of four places in the West--the Arkansas Valley and the Grand Valley of Colorado, the Truckee-Carson basins of California and Nevada, and the Yakima Basin in Washington--where development and use of water, primarily for irrigated agriculture, have been central to economic and social development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780870815331 | Univ Pr of Colorado, December 1, 1999, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: From Reclamation to Sustainability tells the story of four places in the West--the Arkansas Valley and the Grand Valley of Colorado, the Truckee-Carson basins of California and Nevada, and the Yakima Basin in Washington--where development and use of water, primarily for irrigated agriculture, have been central to economic and social development.

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