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2 Rycroft, D. W.; Amer, M. H. 1995. Prospects for the drainage of clay soils. Rome, Italy: FAO. xii, 134p. (FAO irrigation and drainage paper 51)
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4 Tanton, T. W.; Rycroft, D. W.. 1996. Monitoring of drainage performance. In Vincent, B. (Ed.), 16th ICID Congress: Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture - Evaluation of the Performance of Subsurface Drainage Systems: Transactions of the Workshop, Cairo, Egypt, 15-22 September 1996. New Delhi, India: ICID. pp.175-182.
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11 Rycroft, D. W.; Wegerich, K. 2009. The three blind spots of Afghanistan: water flow, irrigation development, and the impact of climate change. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 7(4):115-133.
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The article discusses the three blind spots of northern Afghanistan: water flow, irrigation development, and the impact of climate change. Consideration is given to the different data sets for the current irrigated areas, water resources, and future potentials according to identified projects in northern Afghanistan. The water accounting programme WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning System) has then been applied to estimate the current demands for water as well as the increased demands resulting from climate change.
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Central Asia is facing an unprecedented juxtaposition of regional climate- and water-related issues, emphasised by a changing climate. We investigate the potential impact of long-term climate change on the availability of water resources in the Amu Darya River, one of the two major rivers that feed the Aral Sea, and its effect on irrigation in the region. Using a water balance accounting model developed for the Amu Darya basin, we find that projected increases in summer temperatures of up to 5 °C by 2070–2099 under a high-emission scenario, combined with likely shifts in the seasonality of precipitation, would lead to an increase in crop water consumptive demand of between 10.6 and 16 % (or between 3.7 and 5.5 km3 y-1 ) relative to 1961–1990. By the end of the century, 34 to 49 % of the basin’s existing 3.4 million ha of irrigated land would go unirrigated in a 1:20 year drought. Runoff is also expected to decline by between 10 and 20 % on current levels, however contributions to river flows from unsustainable glacial retreat and snow-melt are likely to remain small. While the uncertainty surrounding the precipitation projections is high, the effect of increased temperatures on irrigation practices in the basin is more robust in the long-term.
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