Cost-benefit analysis of farm water storage: Surface Storage versus Managed Aquifer Storage

Proceedings - 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2931-2937

  Arshad, M ^a,b   Qureshi, M E ^c   Jakeman, A J ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Groundwater; Managed aquifer recharge

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COST ESTIMATING; COTTON; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); IRRIGATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PUMPS; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

COSTS AND BENEFITS; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; INFILTRATION RATE; IRRIGATION DISTRICTS; MANAGED AQUIFER RECHARGES; METHOD OF WATER TREATMENTS; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; PHYSICAL POTENTIALS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84927790547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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