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If you work in the water quality management field, you know the challenges of monitoring and controlling pollutants in our water supply. The increasing problem of agricultural nonpoint source pollution requires complex solutions. Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Watershed Management and Hydrology covers the latest techniques and methods of managing large watershed areas, with an emphasis on controlling non-point source pollution, especially from agricultural run-off. Written by leading experts, the book includes topics such as: nitrate and phosphorus pollution, pesticide contamination, erosion and sedimentation, water-table management, and watershed management. The authors discuss the effects of agricultural run-off - one of the most intransigent problems now faced by environmental engineers and hydrologists. They explore each issue with an eye towards the integrated management of water quality and water resources over a defined area or region. This single-source reference gives you a complete understanding of the whats, whys, and hows of nonpoint source pollution - and more importantly of how to monitor and manage it. Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Watershed Management and Hydrology provides a broad but detailed overview that helps you to comprehend the intricacies of the problem and puts you on the path to finding the answers.
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In the sequel to his bestselling Earth Ponds, Tim Matson offers new ideas, advice, a wealth of resources, and his trademark wit in this sourcebook full of practical information for pond owners. Those who want to build a new pond today are likely to face tighter regulations on wetlands and complicated questions about building methods; those who already own ponds may wonder how to stock it with fish, how to cure an alga or weed problem, or how to cope with beavers. This book addresses all of these issues, and more.
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* Pond Building: a concise guide, A to Z
* Maintenance: symptoms of a dying pond and some basic and off-the-wall ideas about how to prevent, or reverse, this aging process
* Wildlife: how to attract those you want; how to repel those you don't.
* Activities and Use: skating, raising fish, saunas and hot tubs, kits for building rafts, docks, and gazebos, pumps for irrigation and pond protection,
* Garden ponds: goldfish, ornamental plants
* Details about the products on the market, where to buy supplies, and how to get the best for your buck.
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Earth Ponds.......2000-06-24
This is meant as a companion for his other book on ponds but does a very nice job by itself.
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229 pages about cleaning out ditches.......2006-04-03
Stanley Crawford is not a bad writer. He's not.
But "Mayordomo" is not a good book.
It is EXCRUCIATINGLY boring, and that's coming from someone who is obsessed with New Mexico culture and history, who thoroughly enjoyed Annie Dillard's equally plotless (but much better written) "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," and who lives right next to a small town known for its acequia--the Spanish name for the ditches that regulate so much of New Mexico's irrigation water and that form this book's subject.
During the time I read this book, it was all I could do to force myself to pick this book up and continue, but because it was related to some research I was doing, I did. I think during the time I read this, I read literally fourteen other books, all books picked up in a desperate effort to read anything but this. It is PAINFUL.
A more high-falutin' type might tell you that this is a book about laboring to maintain the aquatic, agricultural lifeline of a traditional Hispanic town. And it is.
But what that also translates to is that this is a book about cleaning out a ditch: ...removing leaves from the ditch, removing fallen limbs from the ditch, evening off the ditch's sides with a workcrew, arguing with people about cleaning out the ditch, and so on and so forth.
Here, I'll open the book at random to a few spots, and see what comes up.
Page 61: "We pull and pry the branches out with the pitchfork and rake."
Page 185: "The obstacle, a massive tangle of muddy branches and twigs at the fence dividing Jose's and Rupert's fields, proves to be unyielding to my half-hearted efforts."
Page 47: "The ditch banks are high along here and in good condition; there is no need for more than a superficial cleaning."
Page 82: "The channel must be moved back into the hillside a foot or two along seven or eight feet of the bank or whatever will give us enough dirt to fill up the hole and move the channel into firmer ground."
Page 213: "The engineer picks up a sharpened two-by-four stake and writes 'Start Here' in black marker on it, and then he and Hollander place it at the southeast corner of the future structure, next to the trunk of the beaver-felled cottonwood that straddles the ditch, and drive it into the soft sand."
I swear those are all from me just opening the book at random. The ENTIRE book is like that. The whole book is about cleaning and raking and shoveling out ditches!
The prose is dry and unexciting, the plot nonexistent, the characters too numerous and nondescript to keep track of, and to make it all even more pointless, all the names--even the name of the community it's set in--have been changed, so the book doesn't even teach you anything you can apply to a real place.
On the plus side, I did learn some acequia terminology that has come in handy to me here in small town New Mexico--"tareas" and "parciantes" and all that--and it did make me want to volunteer on a ditch cleaning myself just to see what it's really like. And it is one of the only books on its topic.
But overall, it's not worth it. Unless you are the type who just loves really quiet foreign films in which people do nothing but talk, this is not the book for you. There are better books about New Mexico, better books about nature, better books about Hispanic culture, and even better writings by this same author. (I recommend his article on San Antonio, New Mexico. Now THERE's a town with an interesting acequia, complete with armed standoffs between locals and developers.)
Maybe I just have the attention span of a kid raised on MTV, and the (lack of ) sensitivity of a guy who laughs at Quentin Tarantino films, but I still don't think it would have been asking too much of this book to please just not be so incredibly dull, bland, and eventless.
Read this only at your own risk, or to help with your insomnia.
The best book I ever read!.......2006-03-14
I was so taken with A Garlic Testament that I drove my family to New Mexico to see what Crawford was talking about - I didn't discover Mayordomo until I returned to Kansas City - drove back! Two great books! Two great trips!
The real New Mexico.......1999-01-22
Far too many accounts of life in New Mexico are written by people with an agenda, often Anglos who came here to "find themselves" or "get back to the land" and were outraged when they discovered that reality wouldn't cooperate with their fantasies. By contrast, Stanley Crawford arrived with an open mind and integrated his family so successfully into a small, predominantly Hispanic village that he became the "mayordomo" in charge of administering the community's irrigation system. This book recounts his experiences and describes the workings of the community, in which the water system performs an important symbolic function as well as a practical one. It's well written, sometimes almost poetic, and often very funny. I think this and Crawford's "A Garlic Testament" are far and away the best books on life in rural New Mexico, and I recommend both of them unreservedly.
The acequia system of northern New Mexico.......1996-06-17
In "Mayodomo" Stanley Crawford describes his experience as manager of an "acequia" or irrigation ditch system in arid northern New Mexico. The use of acequia-irrigation originated in Spain and was introduced to the desert Southwest by Franciscan monks over 300 years ago. Acequias feed from rivers or larger acequias, and from these larger tributaries water is run through farm land and orchards then back to the main source. Each year a manager (mayordomo) and three commissioners (comisiados) are democratically elected to oversee water rates and insure fair distribution of water to each "parciante" or landowner who farms along the ditch. Acequia association members are historically of Hispanic or Latino descent, so Crawford's anglo heritage creates an interesting viewpoint of an age old tradition.
As mayordomo Crawford supervises the annual spring clearing of his association's acequia, determines the amount of water that each parciante will receive, and is partially responcible for record keeping and payrolls. A parciante's share of water is determined by the nature of his plantings and for a larger part, the weather. As manager of his ditch Crawford must also contend with family feuding, annual dues or "delincuencias" and parciantes who "cheat" by diverting water to their lands.
Crawford's observations take more into account than the physical labor and political hierarchy associated with the maintenance of an acequia. His words create a meaningful perspective of life among the residents of an old northern New Mexican farming community and his story reveals a group of people that have been chronicled by few writers and generally ignored or forgotten by everyone else. It is a book with literary, anthropological, political, and historical significance. Spanish water laws, established long before state government regulations, support solidarity and insure the parciante's place in the community. Recent land and water legal disputes threaten to undermine an important aspect of life in northern New Mexico, one that keeps these communities together and has done so for hundreds of years.
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Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology)
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Theory, Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint-Source Pollution (Natural Resource Management and Policy)
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Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no `point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being discharged and can be measured, pollution can reach the ambient environment without being monitored. Since management of air and water polution requires the definition and enforcement of limits on discharges or the imposition of fees on those discharges, inability to measure limits our ability to manage this environmental problem. This book presents a state-of-the-art review and discussion of economists' efforts to resolve this major problem and attempts to provide a way of working around it. The book sets forth the theoretical issues, modeling, and the actual programs set up to confront this issue.
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Environment and Livelihoods in Tropical Coastal Zones: Managing Agriculture-Fishery-Aquaculture Conflicts (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series)
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This book focuses on the challenges people face in managing agricultural crops, aquaculture, fisheries and related ecosystems in inland areas of coastal zones in the tropics of Asia, Africa, Australia and South America. These challenges can create conflicts in the use of natural resources
between different stakeholders. Through many case studies, the book discusses the nature of the conflicts and identifies what is known and not known about how to manage them. For example, some case studies relate to the trade-offs between enhancing agricultural production by constructing embankments
to keep out saline water and maintaining not only the variety of rural livelihoods but also brackish aquatic biodiversity. Other case studies provide the lessons learnt from the conversion of mangrove forests to shrimp farms.
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A basic, yet sound appraisal of nitrate processes and issues.......1998-07-01
Trudgill wished to employ his skill as editor in this volume to collate a wide range of works and studies to provide readers with a central text from which to approach nitrates in the environment and issues surrounding management. In my opinion he has not been entirely successful and the final volume should not be regarded as the best of inquiry published on nitrates. He fails to appreciate the latest climate of scientific inquiry where one needs to highlight chaotic approaches to all envirnomental concepts rather than to dwell on the outdated tenets of scientific totality still residing in the arena in question. 5/10.
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Agriculture Non-Point Source Pollution Control: Good Management Practices -- The Chesapeake Bay Experience (World Bank Working Paper, No. 7) (World Bank Working Papers)
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Over the past few decades the quality of many international water bodies has deteriorated, resulting in economic losses from declines in the fishing industry and in tourism, as well as a loss of biodiversity and health impacts from contaminated water. This deterioration has been caused by many factors including nutrient run-off from agriculture, insufficiently treated sewage, drainage of wetlands, coastal erosion, introduction of exotic species, eutrophication and inadequate resource management. One of the most significant sources of degradation has been from excessive discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds (nutrients), due to the poor management practices used in agricultural, domestic and industrial activities.
This publication aims to draw the attention of professionals and practitioners working in agricultural and environmental sectors to the experiences and successes of the environmentally friendly good agricultural practices being used in the Chesapeake Bay Region of the United States to reduce nutrient loads in water.
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Over the past few decades the quality of many international water bodies has deteriorated, resulting in economic losses from declines in the fishing industry and in tourism, as well as a loss of biodiversity and health impacts from contaminated water. These deterioration has been caused by many factors including nutrient run-off from agriculture, insufficiently treated sewage, drainage of wetlands, coastal erosion, introduction of exotic species, eutrophication and inadequate resource management. One of the most significant sources of degradation has been form excessive discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds (nutrients), due to the poor management practices used in agricultural, domestic and industrial activities. This publication aims to draw the attention of professionals and practitioners working in agricultural and environmental sectors to the experience and successes of the environmentally friendly good agricultural practices being used in the Chesapeake Bay Region of the United States to reduce nutrient loads in water.
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Water Resources and Economic Development (The Management of Water Resources Series, Volume 3)
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`Professor Saleth has collected some of the best work of the most creative thinkers in the water resources field today. I expect it to be one of the most-used volumes in my collection.'
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Including work by some of the world's leading economists, engineers, ecologists and social scientists, Water Resources and Economic Development is a unique collection due to its global perspectives and specific focus upon the recent experiences of the developing regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
It explores important topics such as basin and regional development, irrigation and agricultural development, water supply, sanitation and health, legal and institutional issues, water pricing and water markets, and policy trends and emerging issues.
This authoritative volume will be an invaluable source for students, researchers and policymakers and also for those who would like to be more informed in this key area of development studies.
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