Product Description

This book draws together the knowledge that has been gained in irrigation and drainage performance assessment over the last 10 to 15 yers. Performance assessment is an essential management task. If the use of water for irrigation is to be improved, then we must understand current levels of performance and identify measures for improvement. This book provides guidelines to enable practitioners to apply the process and procedures that have evolved. Developed by a working group of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), it provides a theory and practice of how to audit and assess the performance of irrigation and drainage schemes. This book will be of interes to researchers and professionals in irrigation, drainage, soils and agricultural engineering.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1582768 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Review
"This concise book represents a comprehensive source of recent information on the assessment of irrigation and drainage performance, a subject of immense importance as the world's water supplies for new irrigation schemes become increasingly scarce and existing schemes are threatened by managerial difficulties and degradation processes". Brennan D Soane, Experimental Agriculture, 42, 2006"