Wastewater management for irrigation : principles and practices

✍ Scribed by Goyal, Megh Raj; Tripathi, Vinod K

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press ; Boca Raton
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 462
• Series: Research advances in sustainable micro irrigation 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The reuse of wastewater in irrigation is being practiced only recently to solve water scarcity problems in agriculture. Management of water, soil, crop, and operational procedures, including precautions to protect farm workers, play an important role in the successful use of sewage effluent for irrigation. Appropriate water management practices must be followed to prevent salinization. If salt is not flushed out of the root zone by leaching and removed from the soil by effective drainage, salinity problems can build up rapidly. Leaching and drainage are, thus, two important water management practices to avoid salinization of soils. One of the options that may be available to farmers is the blending of treated sewage with conventional sources of water to obtain a blended water of acceptable salinity level.

This important book focuses on the use of wastewater as a valuable resource for agricultural micro irrigation purposes. It covers effective wastewater management practices in a variety of climates, including semi-arid regions and others; how to perform effective evaluations to gauge the quality of the water on plants, including potatoes, maize, and eggplant; and the cost–benefit of using wastewater. It addresses the sources of wastewater for irrigation and the problems along with challenges, including water quality, clogging, soil quality, and more.

The mission of this compendium is to serve as a reference manual for professionals in biological and civil engineering, horticulture, soil and crop science, and agronomy, as well as for graduate and undergraduate students in related fields. It will be a valuable reference for professionals who work with micro irrigation/wastewater and water management, for technical agricultural centers, irrigation centers, agricultural extension services, and other agencies that work with micro irrigation programs.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction PART I: Irrigation Management Quality of Irrigation Water Resources: Egypt
A. S. El-Henawy, M. R. Khalifa. and M. M. Saffan Emitter Clogging: A Menace to Drip Irrigation
Vishal K. Chavan Mechanism of Emitter Clogging: A Review
Vishal K. Chavan, S. K. Deshmukh and M. B. Nagdeve Management of Emitter Clogging with Municipal Wastewater
A. Capra and B. Scicolone Management of Micro Irrigation Using Wastewater to Reduce Emitter Clogging: A Review
Antonina Capra PART II: Wastewater Management Practices Reuse of Municipal Wastewater for Agricultural Irrigation: A Review
Juan C. Duran-Alvarez and Blanca Jimenez-Cisneros Microorganism Contamination in Crops Grown with Wastewater Irrigation: A Review
Prerna Prasad and Vinod Kumar Tripathi Present Status of Wastewater Generation, Disposal and Reuse Challenges for Agriculture
Vinod Kumar Tripathi Impact of Semi-Arid Climate on Wastewater Quality Parameters
Vinod Kumar Tripathi Quality of Municipal Wastewater for Micro Irrigation
Vinod K. Tripathi, T. B. S. Rajput, Neelam Patel, and Lata Biometric Response of Eggplant Under Sustainable Micro Irrigation with Municipal Wastewater
Vinod Kumar Tripathi, T. B. S. Rajput, Neelam Patel, and Pradeep Kumar Cost-Benefit Analysis of Wastewater Reuse in Micro Irrigation
Sushil Kumar Shukla and Ashutosh Tripathi Evaluation of Micro Irrigation with Municipal Wastewater
Vinod Kumar Tripathi, T.B.S. Rajput, Neelam Patel, and Lata Performance of Micro Irrigated Potato with Treated Wastewater
H. A. A. Mansour and Cs. Gyuricza Effects of Treated Wastewater on Water Use Efficiency of Potato
H. A. A. Mansour, M. S. Gaballah, M. Abd El-Hady, and Ebtisam I. Eldardiry Soil Evaporation from Drip Irrigated Maize Field
Hossein Dehghanisanij and Hanieh Kosari Index

✦ Subjects

Irrigation water -- Quality. Microirrigation. Water reuse. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General