Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems

by National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems, et al.

When waterfowl began to die from selenium poisoning at Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in California's San Joaquin Valley, considerable alarm arose among environmental and agricultural specialists. This new volume suggests that Kesterson is not a unique problem and the events there offer important lessons for the future.

Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems uses the San Joaquin experience to suggest how we can prepare for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309040361
• ISBN13: 9780309040365
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 171 Pages