The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different sectors - especially irrigated agriculture and related local water systems and drainage - poses a challenge in an effort to improve water quality and sanitation. In rural and...

Soil, atmosphere, water and quality of agricultural product constitute the content of land ecological quality. Cixi City, through survey pilot project of basic farmland quality, carried out high precision soil geochemical survey and survey of agricultural products, irrigation water and air...

Due to increasing water scarcity, accelerating industrialization and urbanization, efficiency of irrigation water use in Northern China needs urgent improvement. Based on a sample of 347 wheat growers in the Guanzhong Plain, this paper simultaneously estimates a production function, and its...

Appropriate water resource allocation in dry land area is very important for farm management. Although very few systems for water distribution have efficient pricing, water resources should be allocated so that the marginal cost equals the marginal value product of water for all uses and users....

The problem of allocation of limited water resources for multiple and diverse activities with growing demand calls for the need to develop appropriate tools for water valorization. This work develops a methodology to estimate the economic value of water in a basin with large hydropower...