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Performance Analysis of On-demand Pressurized Irrigation Systems

FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 59

Year of publication 2000

Pages 149

Author Land and Water Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper

Series number 0254-5284

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Pressurized irrigation systems working on demand were the object of considerable attention in the sixties and seventies and a considerable number of them were designed and implemented in the Mediterranean basin mainly but also in other parts of the world. The present publication has as its main objective the development of a computer tool that permits the diagnosis of performance of pressurized irrigation systems functioning on demand (also under other conditions), but also provides new and revised criteria for the design of such irrigation networks.

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