Irrigation and drainage : rehabilitation (English)

Irrigated agriculture provides about 40 percent of the world's food resources from 18 percent of the world's cultivated land. Compared to other water uses, irrigation is a high volume, low quality, low cost use accounting globally for 70 percent of the world's water usage. Given this existing pressure on the world's water resources, it is unlikely that many major new sources of water will be developed for irrigation use. Most of the world's major...
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Davis, Richard; Hirji, Rafik.

Irrigation and drainage : rehabilitation (English). Water Resources and Environment Technical Note ; No. E 2. Irrigation and Drainage series Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/725181468287747741

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