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Keep The Farmer Farming—How To Eat Your Water Cake And Have It Too, Raphael J. Moses Jun 1986

Keep The Farmer Farming—How To Eat Your Water Cake And Have It Too, Raphael J. Moses

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

14 pages.

Contains references.


Potential Improvements In Irrigation Management Practices: Water Savings And Costs, James R. Gilley Jun 1986

Potential Improvements In Irrigation Management Practices: Water Savings And Costs, James R. Gilley

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

26 pages.


Augmenting Municipal Water Supplies Through Agricultural Water Conservation, David Engels Jun 1986

Augmenting Municipal Water Supplies Through Agricultural Water Conservation, David Engels

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

38 pages (includes maps).


Changes In Photosynthesis Rate In Pinus Sylvestris L. And Pinus Banksiana Lamb Seedlings Subjected To Drought Stress, George A. Riggs Jr. May 1985

Changes In Photosynthesis Rate In Pinus Sylvestris L. And Pinus Banksiana Lamb Seedlings Subjected To Drought Stress, George A. Riggs Jr.

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Drought Proofing The Farm : Case Studies, J L. Frith Jan 1985

Drought Proofing The Farm : Case Studies, J L. Frith

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

For many years, Western Australia's north-eastern wheatbelthas suffered chronic shortages of water for stock and domestic use. The area's averageannual rainfall is generally low - less than 300 millimetres - and droughts in the 1970s caused futher problems. manydams in the area leak or have inadequate catchmentsand groundwater is scarce ormofmpoor quality.

In March 982, the Western Australian Government provided $100 000 for the Department of agriculture to demonstrate the potential of establishing permanent, drought-proof water supplies on farms in the north-eastern wheatbelt. The methods were to use exixting techniques to build dams and catchments. In a year of low …


New York City’S Battles For Imported Water, J. Kevin Healy Jun 1982

New York City’S Battles For Imported Water, J. Kevin Healy

New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin Transfers: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 7-10)

16 pages (includes illustrations and maps).


Interbasin Transfer Economics: The High Plains Region, Allen Kneese Jun 1982

Interbasin Transfer Economics: The High Plains Region, Allen Kneese

New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin Transfers: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 7-10)

44 pages (includes 1 map).


Legal Protection For The Exporting Region, Gary D. Weatherford Jun 1982

Legal Protection For The Exporting Region, Gary D. Weatherford

New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin Transfers: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 7-10)

13 pages.

Contains footnotes and references.

Contains 1 attachment.

The text of a second attachment has been omitted: "Area of Origin Statutes - The California Experience," Ronald B. Robie, Russell R. Kletzing, 15 Idaho L. Rev. 419 (1979).


Likelihood Of Drought Years In South-Western Australia : How Often Can Droughts Such As That Of 1969 Be Expected In Western Australia's Farming Areas?, Eugene Adsil Fitzpatrick Jan 1970

Likelihood Of Drought Years In South-Western Australia : How Often Can Droughts Such As That Of 1969 Be Expected In Western Australia's Farming Areas?, Eugene Adsil Fitzpatrick

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Because of the serious consequences of drought to individual farmers and to Western Australia's economy, it is worth making an early appraisal of the 1969 rainfall conditions that led to the State's most recent drought in an attempt to estimate how often such seasons might be expected in the agricultural areas.