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Linking Agricultural Water Management and Scientifically-Based Decision Making
Linking Agricultural Water Management and Scientifically-Based Decision Making
Pages 66-69
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in arid regions, which depend on groundwater resources for agriculture, industrial activities, and urban water supply. Overall, 60% of these activities depend on groundwater sources.
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These questions are intensified in the third world as the type of water problems, views of the public, level of people's education and knowledge of the laws, public requests, and institutional and economic situation are different from developed countries. The following steps are proposed to overcome some of the problems listed above, to find practical solutions, and to foster better relationships and collaboration between scientific communities and policy makers, water managers, and farmers.
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The stimulus should come from policy makers and politicians because they are the ones responsible for resolving everyday problems and are the arms of the government. One fact should be brought up -- -politicians, policy makers, and water managers are usually university-educated people with BS or MSc.
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