Wastewater irrigation-economic concerns regarding beneficiary and hazardous effects of nutrients

Water Resources Management

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 303-314

  Haruvy, Nava ^a   Offer, Ram ^a   Hadas, Amos ^a   Ravina, Israela ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Economics; Irrigation; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION; NUTRIENT; OPTIMIZATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ISRAEL;

CROPS; ECONOMICS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NUTRIENTS;

IRRIGATION;

EID: 0033237210     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008114225469     Document Type: Article

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