Water availability, Shelby County, Alabama

Evaluating Alternative Water Allocation Strategies for Maximizing Returns to Irrigation for Wheat in the Texas Panhandle under Declining Water Availability

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007 ◽

10.1061/40927(243)241 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

W. Arden Colette ◽

Lai K. Almas

Keyword(s):

Water Availability ◽

Water Allocation ◽

Texas Panhandle ◽

Alternative Water ◽

Allocation Strategies

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Impact of water availability on winter wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) yield characteristics

Agrokémia és Talajtan ◽

10.1556/agrokem.59.2010.1.18 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 151-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

H. Klupács ◽

Á. Tarnawa ◽

I. Balla ◽

M. Jolánkai

Keyword(s):

Winter Wheat ◽

Water Supply ◽

Water Availability ◽

Grain Quality ◽

Physiological Condition ◽

Triticum Aestivum L ◽

Annual Precipitation ◽

Average Depth ◽

Experimental Site ◽

Yield Quality

Water supply of crop plants is the most essential physiological condition influencing quality and quantity performance of grain yield. In a 12-year experimental series of winter wheat agronomic trials run at the Nagygombos experimental site (Hungary) the effect of water availability has been studied. The location represents the typical average lowland conditions of the country, the annual precipitation of the experimental site belonging to the 550–600 mm belt of the Northern edges of the Great Hungarian Plain, while the average depth of groundwater varies between 2 to 3 metres. Crop years with various precipitation patterns have had different impacts on crop yield quality and quantity. Yield figures were in positive correlation with annual precipitation in general. Water availability had diverse influence on quality manifestation. Good water supply has often resulted in poorer grain quality, especially wet gluten and Hagberg values have been affected by that. Drought reduced the amount of yield in general, but contributed to a better quality manifestation in some of the crop years.

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Tennessee Education Savings Account: Tipping the Scales From Equity to Choice

Iris Journal of Scholarship ◽

10.15695/iris.v2i0.4771 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 98-110

Author(s):

Erin Curtin

Keyword(s):

School District ◽

School Choice ◽

State Level ◽

Poverty Line ◽

Comprehensive Education ◽

Policy Window ◽

Federal Poverty Line ◽

Scholarship Program ◽

Shelby County ◽

K 12

This article provides an analysis of Tennessee’s newly signed Education Savings Account policy, a school choice initiative. The policy provides vouchers, in the form of a debit card, to students in grades K-12 who are at or below 200% of the federal poverty line and are zoned to attend a Nashville, Shelby County, or Achievement School District school. Using the Policy Window Framework the author uncovers that the policy was created in a federal and state-level political convergence, which attempted to place equity at the forefront of the issue. However, using Levin's Comprehensive Education Privatization Framework, we can see that neoliberal ideals of choice and efficiency conquer equity in the finalized policy. The author predicts the outcomes of this new policy using this framework in tandem with 3 case studies: Louisiana Scholarship Program, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, and Tennessee’s Individualized Education Accounts.

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CRITICAL FACTORS OF WATER CONTENT FOR FISH STOCKS IN THE WATER RESERVOIRS OF KAZAKHSTAN

VESTNIK OF ASTRAKHAN STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SERIES FISHING INDUSTRY ◽

10.24143/2073-5529-2017-1-9-18 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 9-18

Author(s):

Saule Zhangirovna Asylbekova ◽

Kuanysh Baibulatovich Isbekov ◽

Evgeniy Vyacheslavovich Kulikov

Keyword(s):

Water Content ◽

Water Level ◽

Water Availability ◽

Hydrological Regime ◽

Fishing Effort ◽

Water Reservoirs ◽

The Caspian Sea ◽

Annual Fish ◽

Commercial Fish ◽

Fish Stocks

The hydrological regime of water reservoirs in different years has a decisive impact on the abundance of commercial fish stocks and the quality of ichthyocenoses. In this connection in 2015-2016 there was conducted a retrospective analysis and ranking of hydrological regime impact on these factors. The paper gives evaluation of catches and fish stocks under different scenarios of water availability in the main fishing ponds of the Republic of Kazakhstan that give about 80% of the annual fish catch of the country (except the Caspian Sea). There were analyzed 2000 factors of hydrological regime (water level, annual discharge) and 1845 factors of fishing stocks (catches, abundance, fish biomass). The paper determines the critical characteristics of water availability for fish stocks. There have been proposed a number of administrative decisions and actions in case if water content would approach to the critical level. Among them: limitation of fish catches in the following year; widening zones restricted for fishing; intensification of safety measures of the fish young in residual ponds during arid periods; introduction of catch standards for a unit of fishing effort in low-water years, high-water years and years with normal water level in rivers.

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