N. A. de Ridder

PREFACE This book is the last of the four-volume series on Drainage Principles and Applications. The contents are based on lectures delivered in the International Course on Land Drainage, which is organized annually by the International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement. Since the...

Preface Nowadays, problems of water resources operation, design, and planning are often solved by a systems approach. This was not so some 10 years ago when we, the authors of this publication, joined the FAO-UNDP Project: Integrated Planning of Irrigated Agriculture in the Varamin Plain, Iran....

PREFACE The International Institute for Land Reelamatlori and Improvement was founded in Wageningen in 1956 and charged with the task of collecting and disseminating knowledge in the fields mentioned in its name. During its first few years of existence, the Institute received a steadily...