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Groundwater Challenges, Charles M. Burt
Groundwater Challenges, Charles M. Burt
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
There are some old lessons that continue to repeat themselves throughout the history of irrigation. For example, it has become a common understanding that accumulated salinity from irrigation spelled the doom of some ancient civilizations in the Middle East. Despite this ancient knowledge, today we still have numerous irrigated basins in which there is no outlet for high-salinity drainage flows.
Likewise, groundwater is something that traditionally has not been well understood, and is often treated as an ever-present back-up plan for irrigation. The “water rights” laws in the western US and elsewhere almost exclusively formalized rules about and concentrated on …
Groundwater Nitrate In California: What Should Be Done?, Charles M. Burt
Groundwater Nitrate In California: What Should Be Done?, Charles M. Burt
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
Charle's Burt PowerPoint presentation discusses current issues concerning nitrates in groundwater in California, as well as recommendations made to the State Water Board by the Nitrate Task Force.