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A research and extension unit of the

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

1986 Water Harvesting Primer Still Relevant Today

2019
W. Gerald Matlock Director, Oracle Agricultural Center, University of Arizona
Gordon R. Dutt Professor, Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona
126 pp., Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2019
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PDF icon 1986 Water Harvesting Primer

Back in the 1980s, the University of Arizona operated a research facility near Oracle, AZ, investigating water harvesting and runoff farming. One of the products of their research was a Primer on Water Harvesting and Runoff Farming written by Gerald Matlock and Gordon Dutt. The authors were predicting the widespread adoption of water harvesting for agriculture as early as 1965, a prediction that has yet to be realized. The primer contains calculations of water yields under various conditions and the relation to yields of various crops. It also contains a guide to design and construction of water harvesting systems and to calculating catchment-to-cultivated area ratio. Manuals on arid and semi-arid water harvesting that contain the same level of detail are rare, so this primer may still be useful for water harvesters.

 

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