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ABOUT THE BOOK

Widespread reporting of water logging and soil salinity in irrigation commands has caused major concerns to the planners and the stakeholders. Although knowledge and understanding of the causes, nature and harmful effects of excess water and salts in the root zone have tremendously increased over the last few decades, yet land and water degradation is causing decline in the productivity of these resources and also impacting the environment. Realizing that the only solution to these problems is through land drainage, this book has been written to add to the scanty literature on this subject. The contents of this book include: introduction to water logging, soil salinity and land drainage, surface drainage requirement of crops and drainage design, subsurface drainage investigations, drainage materials, design and construction procedures, successful case studies, vertical drainage and bio-drainage, reuse and disposal of drainage effluents and socio-economic evaluation of drainage projects. The topics covers almost all the issues required to investigate, design, monitor and evaluate the systems. It is believed that the information contained in this book would facilitate the access to the knowledge on land drainage to the scientists engaged in agricultural research. The book could be adopted as a text book in agricultural and engineering colleges. It could also be used as a resource material in training programs and as a reference material by the officers of the line departments. Above all, the book is a handy reference source to all those interested in sustainable irrigated agriculture and land drainage.

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ABOUTH THE EDITOR 

Dr. S.K. Gupta (Ph. D., FNAE, FAAS, FISAE and FISSRS, (b. l949)) obtained Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and superannuated from the position of Project Coordinator, AICRP on Management of Salt Affected Soils and Use of Saline Water at Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal. Currently, he is working as Emeritus Scientist (ICAR) at the same institute. Dr. Gupta has spent about 39 years in scientific pursuits being actively associated in developing technologies for irrigation water management, surface and subsurface drainage for waterlogged salt affected soils and eco-friendly disposal and reuse of saline/waste waters. He has been an international consultant to UNDP through WAPCOS and Ethiopia. He has guided 14 M. Tech. and 5 Ph.D. students. He has widely travelled and has contributed 150 papers in referred International and National journals, besides writing 14 books. He is recipient of the prestigious Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Water Management.