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including changes in (i) rates of nitrogen application, (ii) supplementary irrigation and (iii) new cultivar (with higher … obtained in the combined innovations rather than individual practices in particular for the supplementary irrigation. We …
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Central Asia, is adversely affected by the excessive, non-sustainable use of irrigation water on one hand, repeated droughts …
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countries. This is more essential in the Aral Sea basin where the tremendous development in irrigation since the 1960s combined … among up- and downstream users over sharing water resources. Insufficient investments in irrigation infrastructure, lack of …
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particular, the multi-purpose character of irrigation and drainage infrastructure creates several interlinks between water … residing in areas where communities use different types of irrigation water. The study used multiple tube fermentation method … socioeconomic characteristics, such as wealth, education level or social status. Households using surface water for irrigation had …
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We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized rural households of north-western Bangladesh using a quasi-experimental analysis. A government organization - the Barindra Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) - established...
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This study examines four sets of questions: What is desertification, and how can its impact on productivity be monitored? How extensive is the desertification problem in the MENA region now, and how has it changed over time? What is the current status of the water-harvesting techniques used to...
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Desertification is a condition of human - induced land degradation that occurs in arid, semiarid and dry sub - humid regions (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration or P/ETP 0.05 to 0.65) and leads to a persistent decline in economic productivi ty ( 15% of the potential) of useful biota...
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