Water management and user association analysis for irrigation improvement in Egypt

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 150-160

  Batt, Hussein Aly ^a   Merkley, Gary P ^b  

^a Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Egypt   (Egypt)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Irrigation improvement; Irrigation policy; Nile Delta; Participatory irrigation management; Water user associations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952931336     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.465     Document Type: Article

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