Water quantity-related subjects

Supplemental references: Irrigation — operating your system

Articles and books

• Brouwer, C., K. Prins, M. Kay, and M. Heibloem, 1989. Irrigation Water Management Training Manual No. 4: Irrigation Scheduling. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/T7202E/T7202E00.htm
• California Department of Water Resources, Office of Water Use Efficiency. 2004. Water use efficiency ideas for golf courses, parks, and commercial landscapes. Available online at http://www.owue.water.ca.gov/docs/WUEIdeasParks.pdf
• California Landscape Contractors Association. 2005. Water use. Available online at http://www.clca.org/clca/about/waterWise.php
• Connellan, Geoff. 2002. Efficient Irrigation: A Reference Manual for Turf and Landscape. Burnley College, University of Melbourne, Australia. Available online at http://www.southeastwater.com.au/sewl/upload/document/WaterConManual.pdf
• Connellan, Geoff. 2004. Evaluating and benchmarking the performance of urban irrigation systems. Presented at the New Zealand Water and Wastewater Association Conference, October 6, 2004. Available online at http://www.irrigation.org.au/Irrig2005/papers/Geoff%20Connellan%20Benchmarking%20performance.pdf
• Eching, Simon, and Richard L. Snyder. 2005. Estimating urban landscape water use, in Water Conservation News, Fall/Winter 2005-2006, page 12. Available online at http://www.owue.water.ca.gov/docs/WCN-winter-06.pdf
• Gibeault, Victor A. 1972. Calculating irrigation needs, in California Turfgrass Culture, Volume 22, no. 4. Available online at http://ucrturf.ucr.edu/publications/CTC/ctc_authorindex_all.htm
• Harivandi, Ali. 1981. Factors in turfgrass irrigation, in California Turfgrass Culture, Volume 31, no. 2. Available online at http://ucrturf.ucr.edu/publications/CTC/ctc_authorindex_all.htm
• Harivandi, Ali. 1997. Irrigation efficiency for turfgrass managers, from volume 2, no. 2 of Growing Points. Available online at http://ohric.ucdavis.edu/Newsltr/Growing%20Points/1998/GP98spring.pdf
• Hensley, David L. 1994. Professional Landscape Management. Stipes Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, 344 pp.
• Huck, Mike. [cited 2006]. Irrigation uniformity. Available online at http://www.turf.msu.edu/docs/74th_Conference/Huck_Water_Irrigation.pdf
• Irrigation Association. Undated [cited 2006]. Common obstacles to irrigation efficiency, in Irrigation and Green Industry, the official publication of the Irrigation Association. Available online at http://www.igin.com/Irrigation/irrefficency.html
• Irrigation Association. Undated [cited 2006]. Irrigation audits: balancing system performance, in Irrigation and Green Industry, the official publication of the Irrigation Association. Available online at http://www.igin.com/Irrigation/irraudits.html
• Irrigation Association. 2005. Landscape Irrigation Scheduling and Water Management. 190 pp. Available online at http://www.irrigation.org/gov/default.aspx?pg=BMPs.htm&id=104
• Irrigation Association. 2005. Turf and Landscape Irrigation Best Management Practices. 51 pp. Available online at http://www.irrigation.org/gov/default.aspx?pg=BMPs.htm&id=104
• Marsh, Albert W. 1976. Water requirement Information needed for good planning, in California Turfgrass Culture, Volume 26, no. 1. Available online at http://ucrturf.ucr.edu/publications/CTC/ctc_authorindex_all.htm
• Miyamoto, S., Rick Galceran, and Richard Garcia. 1997. Landscape irrigation with salty water. Grounds Maintenance magazine. Available online at http://grounds-mag.com/mag/grounds_maintenance_landscape_irrigation_salty/
• Miyamoto, S., S. Khurram, I. Martinez, D. Ornelas, and D. Tierre. [cited 2006]. Establishing the guidelines for landscape uses of reclaimed or saline water. Available online at http://elpaso.tamu.edu/research/FSMiya1.pdf
• Riverside County, California. 2002. A guide to preparing water budgets. Available online at http://www.emwd.org/conservation/pdf/water_budget.pdf
• Rogers, Danny H., Freddie R. Lamm, Mabub Alam, Todd P. Trooien, Gary A. Clark, Philip A. Barnes, and Kyle Mankin. 1997. Efficiencies and water losses of irrigation systems. Available online at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/ageng2/mf2243.pdf
• San Jose, City of. [cited 2006]. Landscape guide: irrigation practices. Available online at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/sbwr/LandscapeGuide/GuideIrrigate.htm
• Schwankl, Lawrence J., David A. Shaw, M. Ali Harivandi, Richard L. Snyder. 1992. Evaluating turfgrass sprinkler irrigation systems. Leaflet 21503 of the Cooperative Extension, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. 24 pp.
• Snyder, R.L. 2003. Landscape Irrigation Management Program. Available online at http://biomet.ucdavis.edu/irrigation_scheduling/LIMP/limp.pdf

Organizations

• The website of the Irrigation Association, located at http://www.irrigation.org/, provides links for downloading a number of valuable articles and manuals. The site also provides an online bookstore from which various irrigation-related books and manuals can be ordered.

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