Cai, Ximing; McKinney, Daene C.; Rosegrant, Mark W. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
Sustainable irrigation water management should simultaneously achieve two objectives: sustaining irrigated agriculture … appropriate irrigation practices. Lessons learned from unsustainable water management practices around the world demonstrate the … necessity—and growing urgency—of applying sustainability principles to water management in river basins where irrigation is a …