Root Zone Salinity Management Using Fractional Skimming Wells With Pressurized Irrigation: Farmers' Skimming Well Technologies: Practices, Problems, Perceptions and Prospects

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Saeed, Muhammad Mazhar; Ashraf, Muhammad; Asghar, Muhammad Nadeem; Bruen, Michael; Shafique, Muhammad Siddique
Date:	2002
Agency:	International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Series:	IWMI Working Paper, no. 40
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4844
Sector:	Agriculture Water Resource & Irrigation
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Subject(s):	irrigation technology water management river basins salinization agriculture
Abstract:	"In the Indus basin of Pakistan, farmers use skimming wells to extract the upper freshwater layer to supplement their canal irrigation supplies. These farmers and drillers evolved skimming well technologies without any expert technical guidance. This has resulted in economical, technical, operational and environmental problems and in the low performance of these tube wells. This paper presents the results of a case study conducted in a Salinity Control and Reclamation Project area of the Indus basin, to identify these problems and solve them with the participation of farmers."

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