TY - BOOK AU - Albaji, Mohammad (Ed.)...[et. all ] AU - Eslamian, Saeid (Ed.) AU - Eslamian, Faezeh (Ed.) AU - Naseri, Abd Ali (Ed.) TI - Handbook of Irrigation System Selection for Semi-Arid Regions SN - 9780367505363 U1 - 613.67(213.52)(035) PY - 2020/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Irrigation engineering KW - Irrigation system KW - Arid regions agriculture N1 - Irrigation, the addition of water to lands via artificial means, is essential to profitable crop production in arid climates. Irrigate agriculture makes a major contribution to foo security in the world. It uses more than 60%-70% of the water withdrawn from the world's water resources. The irrigate area at a global level represents around 20% of the total agricultural land an contributes 40% of the total foo production ER -