@article{Conservation:338970,
      recid = {338970},
      author = {Soil Conservation Service},
      title = {Water Conservation in Irrigation Agriculture},
      address = {1961-07},
      number = {1962-2023-1288},
      series = {SCS-TP-141},
      pages = {18},
      year = {1961},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report:  Water conservation is a subject  of growing concern to communities everywhere.  Alarmed by  the rapidly growing demands on our water resource,  Government and industry alike are studying ways of making  water go farther by making it do more jobs with a given  amount, or by reducing waste.  Citizens' groups are rightly  concerned about the protection of their water sources and  preservation of the recreational and esthetic values of  streams, lakes, and reservoirs.  One of the biggest  opportunities for water savings is in irrigation  agriculture, for that is where the most of the supply is  used.  In some western watersheds as much as 90 percent of  the streamflow is devoted to irrigation, and in the East,  irrigation is rapidly becoming an accepted practice in  modern agriculture.  As our population grows and the demand  for agricultural products increases, more land inevitably  will be put under irrigation.  This poses a demand for  additional water from supplies that are already too small  in many places.  At the same time, industrial and  technological development have the effect of pyramiding  water requirements.  Experience with conservation farming  on irrigated land and the improvements in irrigation  efficiency that have been attained in soil conservation  districts indicate plainly that conservation irrigation can  help meet tomorrow's water problems.  These possibilities  are explored in the following pages.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338970},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.338970},
}