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Salinity and Drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California

Science, Technology, and Policy

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Andrew C. Chang

    1. Center for Water Resources, University of California, Riverside, USA

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  2. Deborah Brawer Silva

    1. Center for Water Resources, University of California, Riverside, USA

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  • Offers a comprehensive delineation of salinity drainage issues from basic research to technology development and policy analysis
  • Includes special chapters on terrestrial and aquatic selenium biogeochemistry, operations of drainage evaporation ponds, and desalination of agricultural drainage water
  • Demonstrates advanced technologies in irrigation management and in-basin drainage water and salinity control

Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 5)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Prologue

    • Andrew C. Chang, Deborah Brawer Silva
    Pages 1-6

  3. E. W. Hilgard and the History of Irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley: Stunning Productivity, Slowly Undone by Inadequate Drainage

    • James D. Oster, Dennis Wichelns
    Pages 7-46

  4. The San Joaquin Valley: Salinity and Drainage Problems and the Framework for a Response

    • Nigel W. T. Quinn
    Pages 47-97

  5. Scales and Scaling as a Framework for Synthesizing Irrigated Agroecosystem Research on the Westside San Joaquin Valley

    • Wesley W. Wallender, Jan W. Hopmans, Mark E. Grismer
    Pages 99-122

  6. Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements: Reactions in Soils

    • Christopher Amrhein, Harvey E. Doner
    Pages 123-146

  7. Uptake, Metabolism, and Volatilization of Selenium by Terrestrial Plants

    • Elizabeth A. H. Pilon-Smits, Gary S. Bañuelos, David R. Parker
    Pages 147-164

  8. Bacterial Reduction of Selenium

    • Yiqiang Zhang, William T. Frankenberger Jr.
    Pages 165-184

  9. Chemical and Biological Processes of Evaporation Ponds

    • Suduan Gao, Andrew C. Chang
    Pages 185-210

  10. Management of Evaporation Basins To Reduce and Avoid Adverse Impacts to Waterbirds

    • Douglas E. Davis, Charles H. Hanson
    Pages 211-247

  11. Integrated Irrigation and Drainage Water Management

    • James E. Ayars, Blaine R. Hanson
    Pages 249-276

  12. Drainage Water Reuse: Concepts, Practices and Potential Crops

    • Stephen R. Grattan, James D. Oster, John Letey, Stephen R. Kaffka
    Pages 277-302

  13. Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water

    • Yoram Cohen, Brian McCool, Anditya Rahardianto, Myung-man Kim, Jose Faria
    Pages 303-341

  14. Advances in Wetland Salinity Management

    • Nigel W. T. Quinn
    Pages 343-352

  15. Regional Economics and Management in Closed Drainage Basins

    • Keith C. Knapp, Kurt Schwabe, Kenneth A. Baerenklau
    Pages 353-379

  16. California and Beyond: An International Perspective on the Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture

    • Dennis Wichelns, James D. Oster
    Pages 381-406

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 407-409
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This book documents the history of irrigated agriculture and drainage in the San Joaquin Valley, and describes the hydrology and biogeochemical processes of salts and selenium, remediation technologies for salts and trace elements and policy and management options. The contents are comprised of fourteen chapter-length independent treatises, each depicting with fresh perspective a distinctive salinity drainage topic. The opening chapters detail the evolution of irrigated agriculture, and depict the geochemical and hydrological processes that define the San Joaquin Valley, including the physics, chemistry, and biology attributes that impact water management policies and strategies. Next, the contributors address the biogeochemistry of selenium, the role of plants in absorbing it from soils, and the processes involved in retaining and concentrating dissolved salts in drainage water. Further chapters describe on-farm and plot-level irrigation provisions to reduce agricultural drainage outputs and examine their effects on plant performance. This volume offers realistic policy analysis of water management options for irrigated agriculture in the Valley and assesses their respective outcomes, if implemented. Also included is an international perspective on the sustainability of irrigated agriculture there.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Water Resources, University of California, Riverside, USA

    Andrew C. Chang, Deborah Brawer Silva

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