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Water Harvesting — Past and Future

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Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture

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As long as mankind has inhabited semi-arid areas and cultivated agricultural crops, it has practiced flood recession farming. Based on “natural water harvesting” the use of the waters of ephemeral streams was already the basis of livelihood in the arid and semi-arid areas many thousands of years ago, allowing the establishment of cities in the desert (Evenari et al. 1971).

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Prinz, D. (1996). Water Harvesting — Past and Future. In: Pereira, L.S., Feddes, R.A., Gilley, J.R., Lesaffre, B. (eds) Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, vol 312. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8700-6_10

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