in last decade it is almost impossible to not seen anything about water resource crisis and water shortage in natural resources exploitation and use reports. such information encourages decision makers and researchers to looking for solutions in relation to this problem and sustainable management of water resources. in this regard, first step towards sustainable management of water resources is...

EDWARD CURRY (1), VIKTORIYA DEGELER (1), EOGHAN CLIFFORD (1) DANIEL COAKLEY (1), ANDREA COSTA (2), SCHALK-JAN VAN ANDEL (3), NICK VAN DE GIESEN (4), CHRISTOS KOUROUPETROGLOU (5), THOMAS MESSERVEY (2), JAN MINK (6), SANDER SMIT (7) (1): National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. (2): R2M Solution, Italy. (3): UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands. (4): TU Delft, Netherlands. (5): Ultra 4, Greece. (6): V...

l and drainage has been central to the development of North America since colonial times, with the first organized drainage efforts occurring as early as the 1600s (Evans et al. 1996). Drainage has been encouraged to improve public highways, reduce public health risks, promote increased crop yield and reduced yield variability, reduce surface runoff and erosion, and increase land value. Agricul...

abstract water is a vital resource for every biological and human phenomena. nowadays, water management and conservation has a great importance not only in developing countries, but also in developed countries. in traditional economics, water is not taken into consideration as a factor of production in the national accounts. nevertheless in reality, water is the primary input of many goods and ...

In this research, the effects of irrigation with saline and fresh water through drip irrigation method and using two irrigation management strategies: M1, M2 (M1 is irrigation with fresh water in alternative with saline water, M2 is saline water in first half time of each irrigation event and fresh water in the second half), on the yield, water productivity (WP), soil salinity, plant height...