Productivity and Efficiency

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.

Productivity and Efficiency Resources

Project Grant Agreement Between the Republic of Indonesia and the United States of America for Fisheries Research and Development

Published: 
August 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
Project to establish fisheries research programs at Indonesia's Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (AARD) institutes and key universities and to establish a national fisheries research agenda. The project will be implemented by AARD and the Directorate General of Higher Education...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Progress Report: High Rate Anaerobic Digestion and High Rate Oxidation Ponds

Published: 
August 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
The objectives of this program were to characterize the various effluents from a newly built Kraft pulping mill, study the high rate of anaerobic digestion of a selected wastewater from the Kraft mill, study of photosynthetic system which can treat the effluent from the digester in high-rate...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Induced Spawning on Pangasius Pangasius (Hamilton): Carried Out in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Published: 
July 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
The successfully induced spawning in South Sumatra of Pangasius pangasius (Hamilton), a riverine catfish, is the basis of this manual on artificial breeding techniques for this species. A brief biological description of the species covers physical and reproductive characteristics. The collection...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Lessons from Fisheries Development in West Africa Overview

Published: 
July 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper is the first in a series of five working papers that present the trend in the development of marine fisheries in West Africa from 1970-1982.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Oceanic Institute and Tungkang Marine Laboratory: Cooperative Program on Milkfish Research -- TML Activities Progress Report

Published: 
July 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Oceanic Institute & Tungkang Marine LaboratoryCooperative Program on Milkfish Research has progressed into the end of its first phase. Implementation of the program has invited the total effort of the milkfish research group andthe employment of a high percentage of the milkfish stock inTML...Read more
Regional focus: 
East Asia and Pacific

Africa Strategy for International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI)

Published: 
July 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
This document was prepared for presentation initially to II MI's Program Committee, which met in January 1986, and is the first step towards organizing a coherent program by which II MI will relate to those African countries which practice irrigation.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

High Performance Sederhana Irrigation Systems Project

Published: 
May 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of the High Performance Sederhana Irrigation Systems project (HPSIS) was to build and manage small-scale irrigation systems (less than 2000 hectares) and to test and refine a participatory approach to developing and managing these systems. Because the participatory nature of HPSIS was...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Women's Roles in Irrigated Agricultural Production Systems During the 1985 Yale Season: Parakrama Samudra Scheme and Giritale Scheme, Polonnaruwa District, Sri Lanka

Published: 
May 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
The study on women's roles in irrigated agricultural systems was conducted as part of the Diagnostic Analysis (DA) Project. The OA Project is an interdisciplinary research effort funded by the USAID/Colombo Mission with support from the Water Management Synthesis II Project (WMSIIP). The...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sri LankaSouth East Asia

Managed Fish Production

Published: 
April 16, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
PES of a project to determine the feasibility of developing a large-scale managed fish production program as a way of increasing the nutritional status of Panama's rural poor. PES covers the period 6/81-4/85 and is based on an attached economic analysis (XD-AAT-440-A). The project failed to...Read more
Regional focus: 
PanamaLatin America and the Caribbean

Rapid Appraisal of Nepal Irrigation Systems

Published: 
April 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentColorado State University
The objective of the rapid appraisals was to provide USAID and Nepal officials with relevant information on potential project sites.Read more
Regional focus: 
NepalSouth East Asia

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