Record Details
Why Improving Irrigation Efficiency Increases Total Volume of Consumptive Use
University of Idaho Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Why Improving Irrigation Efficiency Increases Total Volume of Consumptive Use |
| Creator | Contor, Bryce A.; Taylor, R. Garth |
| Date | 2011-04-14 |
| Subject | irrigation efficiency; water yield improvement; consumptive use; water demand |
| Description | The common prescription for dealing with limited supplies of water is to improve irrigation efficiency, that is, to reduce gross delivery to farm fields while maintaining full crop production. The public and some policy makers continue to assume that the water thus saved constitutes a new supply that may be applied to other uses. Scientists and hydrologists have long understood that the non-consumed fraction of applied water often becomes the source for another human or ecosystem purpose... |
| Relation | IWRRI |
| Contributor | Idaho Water Resources Research Institute; IWRRI |
| Publisher | University of Idaho |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/ |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Type | Text |
| Identifier | http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/idahowater/id/441 |
