Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation, Report 1

Series

Water Task Force

Collection name

NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present

Date

2003-10

Decade

2000s

Author

Skaggs, Rhonda

Samani, Zohrab A.

Magallanez, Henry

Dickerson, George W.

Ward, Frank A.

Michelsen, Ari

DeMouche, Leeann

St. Hilaire, Rolston

Smith, Curtis

Leinauer, Bernd

Bagwell, Tom

Fernald, Sam

Guldan, Steve

Baker, Terrell

King, J. Phillip

Cowley, David E.

Shirey, Patrick

Hohman, Clifford

Schroeder, Jill

Ulery, April

Sanderson, Robert

Bleiweiss, Max

Miller, David

Sammis, Ted

Sterling, Tracy

Contributor

Runyan, R. Craig

Subject (LCSH)

Irrigation-Water efficiency--New Mexico

Rio Grande Basin Initiative

Subject (NALT)

irrigation

New Mexico

water use efficiency

Table of contents

Introduction

Overview of Rio Grande Basin Initiative

Irrigation district studies

Efficient irrigation for water conservation in the Rio Grande Basin

Irrigation education and training

Evaluation of user-friendly drip irrigation/mulch systems for urban and small farm specialty crop production

Institutional incentives for efficient water use

Institutional barriers to water conservation in the Rio Grande Basin

Urban landscape and in-home water conservation

Determining landscape choices, plant water use and minimum irrigation requirements in the urban environment

Effect of subirrigation and soil amendments on water conservation, Irrigation efficiency and turfgrass quality

Science, Technology, Urban Agriculture, Research and Demonstration Site (STUARDS)

Environment, ecology and water quality protection

Irrigation ditch seepage effects on surface water/groundwater interaction along the Rio Grande Corridor

Agriculture irrigation systems and conservation of native fishes: Issues in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico

Identification and detection of problem and noxious weeds on irrigation canals will lead to effective weed management programs and increase water for irrigation

Basin-wide hydrology, salinity modeling and technology

Development of decision support tools for water conservation in the Rio Grande Valley: Remote sensing in irrigation management

Extent

71 pages

Notes

Report containing general information on the Rio Grande Basin Initiative, and various irrigation-efficiency models studied and used within the Rio Grande Basin.

Original publisher

New Mexico State University

College of Agriculture and Home Economics

Cooperative Extensive Service

Agricultural Experiment Station

Place of publication

Las Cruces (N.M.)

Frequency

frequency varies

Digital publisher

New Mexico State University Library

Source

NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)

Language

English

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Medium (AAT)

newsletters

Genre (AAT)

periodicals

Access rights

Open to re-use

Metadata cataloger

Page, Kristen

Schneider, Ingrid

Roth, Michael

Digital identifier

UAAPt0WTF01.pdf