Abstract
THE introduction of irrigation in an arid country, along with its obvious blessings, brings in its train diverse problems, as do most other of man's disturbances of Nature's equilibrium. The consequences may give rise to problems of such urgency that, unless solved, large tracts of land, after a period of fertility productive of an ever-increasing density of population, must lapse into saline desert or into waterlogged marsh infested with malaria. Difficulties will be at their worst in flat country devoid of drainage.
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WILSDON, B. Problems of Irrigation. Nature 125, 674–677 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125674a0
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