Productivity and Efficiency
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.
Productivity and Efficiency Resources
Farm Irrigation Constraints and Farmers' Responses, Comprehensive Field Survey in Pakistan; Vol. VI: Appendices
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September 1, 1978U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentColorado State University
Volume VI of a comprehensive study of Pakistan's irrigation system presents appendices which provide a wide range of information, background and raw data concerning farmers' responses to irrigation constraints appearing in companion volumes. Appendix I reports methods and sample, concepts...Read more
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PakistanSouth East AsiaFarm Irrigation Constraints and Farmers' Responses, Comprehensive Field Survey in Pakistan; Vol. V: Farmer Responses to Major Constraints: Viable Options... Conditions
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September 1, 1978U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentColorado State University
Part of a field study on the irrigation system in Pakistan, Volume V examines the existing options which farmers exercise in order to control erratic water supplies, and presents a comprehensive watercourse improvement program. Four existing water control options are described: (1) water purchasing...Read more
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PakistanSouth East AsiaImproving Irrigation Management of Farms: Annual Technical Report, 1977/1978
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January 1, 1978U.S. Agency for International Development
This report details the accomplishments of the Mona Reclamation Experimental Project, a project to develop a fund of water management information and gain experience in the factor limiting or accelerating its adaptation in new countries. Pakistan was the country where the study was implemented.Read more
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PakistanSouth East AsiaImproving Agricultural Production through Farm Water Management
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January 1, 1978U.S. Agency for International Development
This booklet describes the benefits of irrigation system improvement for on-farm management in Pakistan. The major technical procedures that were used in the study to accomplish the improvements have included watercourse rehabilitation, land leveling, better field water application methods and...Read more
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PakistanSouth East AsiaWatercourse Improvement in Pakistan; Pilot Study in Cooperation With Farmers At Tubewell 56L
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January 1, 1977U.S. Agency for International Development
Over half the water supplied to the watercourse at Tubewell 56L was lost before it reached the farmers' fields. This loss was primarily through the upper porous portions of the banks and in the vicinity of junctions where banks were thin. The 35 farmers in the 900-acre area served by this...Read more
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PakistanSouth East AsiaInstitutional Framework for Improved on - Farm Water Management in Pakistan
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January 1, 1976U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentColorado State University
Sufficient data has been collected and analyzed to define some of the major irrigation water management problems in Pakistan, as well as the technologies that could be employed to correct many of these problems. Thus, there is a strong basis for undertaking a program of improved on-farm water...Read more
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PakistanSouth East AsiaReport of Fishcultural Investigations in East Pakistan
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August 15, 1969U.S. Agency for International Development
Pakistan experiences large discrepancy of receiving the necessary amount of protein in citizens diets. For this reason increasing fish production is a means of meeting this necessary supply of protein which is examined in depth in this report.Read more
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