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

The Transition in the Contribution of Living Aquatic Resources to Food Security

Published: 
April 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The world fish supply is becoming increasingly scarce, a transition that cannot be prevented by more intensive fishing but only ameliorated through improved management of fisheries resources, improved aquaculture production, better use of resources, and interventions to improve equity. These tasks...Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program: Thirteenth Annual Administrative Report

Published: 
August 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report addresses program accomplishments of the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program during the reporting period of September 1 1994 to August 31 1995.Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

Crafting Institutions: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems

Published: 
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report outlines an approach to the design of irrigation institutions that is useful to officials in donor agencies, host governments, and other organizations involved in designing irrigation projects in developing countries. The crafting of irrigation institutions is an ongoing process that...Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

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

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