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With contributions from an international team of experts, this book offers planners, engineers, and designers guidelines for using recycled water in landscape and agricultural applications. The book thoroughly covers all of the relevant technical, economic, financial, agronomic, health, environmental, regulatory, and social issues. It covers how to develop, implement, and operate wastewater reuse systems based on rigorous, best management practices that maximize efficiency, reliability, and economy while minimizing the potential for adverse effects to the environment and human health. Comprehensive tables, charts, figures, photographs, and case studies make the information easy to find. ... Read more

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Today water resources are under extreme pressure all over the world.This book brings together the work of researchers and professionals currently involved in the development of technical and scientific skills that contribute to achieving water resources sustainability.Over 65 contributions originally presented at the Third International Conference on Water Resources Management are included.

The wide variety of subjects covered are as follows:Hydrological Modelling;Groundwater Flow and Remediation;Reservoirs and Lakes;Coastal and Estuarial Problems;Water Quality;Pollution Control;River Basin Management;Water Management and Planning;Wastewater Treatment and Management;Irrigation Problems;Residential Water Management;Sustainable Water Use;and Arid Region Problems. ... Read more

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Making a Large Irrigation Scheme Work provides a history of irrigation management in Mali from colonial times to post-independence. It looks at how irrigation management reforms came about at Mali’s Office du Niger and how relevant this reform process is for irrigation schemes in other countries.

Mali’s irrigation scheme was an outcome of colonial settlement with the corresponding lack of rights for cultivators to own land, process paddy, and market rice. Post-independence, a coalition of government and irrigation agency staff contributed to governmental unwillingness to reform the scheme’s management. Government interest lay in satisfying the growing demand for rice from its burgeoning urban constituency and a fear of riots in response to rice shortages and high prices. It’s interest also lay with maintaining the support of the agency’s staff.

The authors analyze how field teams, funded by bilateral donors, shaped technical and institutional change to fully reform management and how grain market reforms provided farmers stronger incentives and raised yields. The combination of changes inside and outside the scheme gradually shifted the balance of power and led to a stakeholder setup in which organized farmers replaced the agency. Regime change to multiparty democracy and policy change toward economic liberalization then opened a window of opportunity that the government used to consolidate the reforms and the new balance of power.

The success of the reform process lies in the way Mali’s government came to commit to the irrigation reforms. The paper indicates how commitment by other governments may be achieved by using the same and other tools. Making Large Irrigation Schemes Work is a useful resource for professionals involved in the transfer of management authority from government to user associations. ... Read more