Salinity and Drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California

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.

• Environmental sustainability
• Irrigation and drainage
• Policy and management of salinity
• Selenium ecotoxicity
• Water resources management
• hydrogeology
• ecotoxicology

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

  Andrew C. Chang, Deborah Brawer Silva

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