Measuring losses from on-farm water storages in the cotton industry

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Wigginton, David. 2011. "Measuring losses from on-farm water storages in the cotton industry." Thompson, Chris (ed.) Irrigation 2011: New Horizons, Fresh Ideas Regional Conference and Exhibition. Launceston, Australia 22 - 25 Aug 2011 Sydney, Australia.

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Paper/Presentation Title	Measuring losses from on-farm water storages in the cotton industry
Presentation Type	Paper
Author	Wigginton, David
Editors	Thompson, Chris
Journal or Proceedings Title	Proceedings of Irrigation 2011 - New Horizons, Fresh Ideas Regional Conference and Exhibition
Number of Pages	2
Year	2011
Place of Publication	Sydney, Australia
Web Address (URL) of Paper	http://www.irrigation.org.au/index.cfm?/publications/2011-conference-papers
Conference/Event	Irrigation 2011: New Horizons, Fresh Ideas Regional Conference and Exhibition
Event Details	Irrigation 2011: New Horizons, Fresh Ideas Regional Conference and Exhibition Event Date 22 to end of 25 Aug 2011 Event Location Launceston, Australia
Abstract	Irrigators across the Australian Cotton Industry utilise large on-farm storages to capture irregular water supplies. Commercially available measurement technology was employed to measure the losses from over 125 storages across the industry. Mean seepage losses were found to be very low (2.59mm/day), although some individual losses were high. However, for a selection of 10 farms, storage losses still accounted for 79% of all on-farm losses.
Keywords	evaporation; seepage; farm dams; water storage; losses; cotton farms
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	380101. Agricultural economics
	300201. Agricultural hydrology
	400513. Water resources engineering
Public Notes	File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author.
Byline Affiliations	National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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