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A fortnight on farms in the United Kingdom Cecil B. Cum'n Wisconsin conservationists respond to field off ice overload Stephen J. Ventura and David A. Giarnpetroni Using PGA for consensus building in public land disput es Michael J. Havercamp, David J. Torell, and William I? Evans Evaluating agricultural policy and the sustainability of production systems: An economic framework Paul Faeth

VIEWPOINT 102 Erosion/sediment control Is a profession

John W. Peterson

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Effectiveness of winter rye for accumulating residual fertilizer N following corn D.C. Ditsch, M.M. A l b , K.R. Keky, and Y.Z. Lei Reed canarygrass survival under cyclic inundation J.S. Rice and B. W Pinkerton Soil conservation practices on clearcut forestlands in Louisiana K. W. Famsh, J.C. Adams, and C. K Zbompson Design and implementation of a soil geographic database for rural planning and management R. Norbert0 Fernandez, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Lucia Morais da Silua, and Chris J. Johannsen Sewage sludge land application program in West Virglnia J. Skousen and C. Clinger Factors affecting investment in CRP lands on the Southern High Plains of Texas C. W: Suddeth, R. T. Eruin, and E. W. Elam

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Journa l of Soil a n d Wafer Consewahon (ISSN 0022-4561) is publ ished six t imes a year i n January March May July September and November by the Soi l and Water Conservation Society 7515 N E Ankeny Road Ankeny Iowa 500214764 Second class postage paid at Ankeny Iowa. and addi t ional mai l ing of f ices POSTMASTER Send address changes to Journal o f So i l and Wafer Conservation 7515 N E Ankeny Road Ankeny Iowa 50021- 9764 Copyright 01993 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society SWCS assumes no responsibility fo r statements and opinions expressed by contributors Address all edi tor ia l and business correspondence to Journal of Sorl and Wafer Consewahon. 7515 N E Ankeny Road Ankeny Iowa 50021- 9764 telephone (515) 289-2331 fax (515) 289-1227 Subscription is by membership in the Soi l and Water Conservation Society or by subscription Membership dues are S44 a year ($50 outside the United States and Canada) subscriptions are $39 a year (S44 outside the United States and Canada)

As a multidisciplinary membership organization, we advocate the protection, enhancement, and wise use of soil, water, and related natural resources. Through education and example, we promote an ethic that recognizes the interdependence of people and the environment.

President Ron Hicks, Sherwood Park, Alberta Vice-president William J. Brune, Victoria, Minnesota Secretary-Treasurer Calvin J. Perkins, Broadalbin, New York Board Representative on Executive Committee Anthony G. Burns, New Castle, Kentucky Executive Vice-president Douglas M. Kleine, Des Moines, Iowa

Calvin J. Perkins, Broadalbin, New York, (1 993) Robert C. "Robbie" Robison, Athens, Georgia (1995) Anthony G. Burns, New Castle, Kentucky (1994) Gary C. Steinhardt, West Lafayette, Indiana (1995) William J. Brune, Victoria, Minnesota, (1 993) John A. Knapp, LaJunta, Colorado (1995) 0. R. "Reggie" Jones, Bushland, Texas (1994) Jan Jinings, Boise, Idaho (1 993) Ron Hicks, Sherwood Park, Alberta (1994) Jodie Lloyd, College Station, Texas (1993) Lloyd Mielke, Lincoln, Nebraska (1995)

David B. Baker, Tiffin, Ohio Alfred Birch, Edmonton, Alberta Blair T. Bower, Arlington, Virginia George Foster, Oxford, Mississippi N. W. Hudson, Silsoe, England Dennis Keeney, Ames, Iowa Fred B. Knight, Orono, Maine Don K. McCool, Pullman, Washington Pete Nowak, Madison, Wisconsin Dave Schertz, Washington, D.C. Gerald E. Schuman, Cheyenne, Wyoming B.A. Stewart, Bushland, Texas Ken Trott, Davis, California

Editor Paula Porter Assistant Editor Doug Snyder Research Editor 1989-1992 James F. Power Research Editor 1993 Warren J. Busscher Production Assistant Anne Harness

Director of Public Affairs and Foundation Activities Max Schnepf Director of Education and Professional Development Tim Kautza Director of Manaoement Information Systems James L. Sanders Washington Off ice Norm Berg Executive Assistant Susie Anderson Volunteer Coordinator Stephanie Polsley Accounts Receivable Clerk Lana Ash Accounts Payable Clerk Carolyn Eckardt Administrative Assistants Dianna Leete and Bridget Wipperman Printer Barbara Stoner MaiCClerk Cora Breckenridge

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Comments on SWCS wetland policy statement

It is deeply disappointing that SWCS, in its wetland poli- cy statement, chose to ignore the most hotly-debated aspect of federal wetland policy in agricultural areas. That debate concerns the assertion of fed- eral jurisdiction over so-called farmed wetlands.

Ignoring farmed wetlands is disturbing because so many of SWCS members are out in the trenches of the “wetlands war” and are well aware of the in- defensible positions they are being ordered to hold o n farmed wetlands. Too many tax dollars and too much gov- ernment agency credibility is being wasted in an attempt to regulate areas of obviously limited public benefit that were converted to cropland decades ago and, which Con- gress clearly did not intend to regulate.

Congressional committee re- ports from the development of the swampbuster proposal in 1985 reveal that Congress in- tended that any land which was under crop production be grandfathered and exempted from regulation. The purpose of swampbuster was to dis- courage the creation of new cropland from true wetland.

However, environmentalists convinced the USDA to in- clude farmed wetlands in swampbuster regulations. And so we have the makings of a range war over turf on which Congress did not wish govern- ment to tread. Although USDA rulemakers were able to effec- tively rewrite the swampbuster law to include farmed wet- land’s they could not erase the actual law. How could improv- ing the drainage of land, which was tiled decades ago and regularly used to produce ag commodities since, be con- sidered wetland conversion subject to swampbuster penal- ties? The obvious answer is

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that regularly cropped farmed wetland should not be part of swampbuster.

The Corps of Engineers has also manipulated its rules to expand its jurisdiction to farmed wetlands. Prior to its adoption of the 1989 wetland identification manual, the Corps considered “normal cir- cumstances” for hydrophytic vegetation prevalence to be under the existing land use. Regularly cropped wet areas did not normally exhibit hy- drophytic vegetation and were not regulated. The 1989 manu- al redefined “normal circum- stances” to mean what vegeta- tion would exist if the farmer didn’t keep disturbing the soil. The Corps’ jurisdiction territo- ry increased dramatically! When Congress reined in this land grab and ordered the Corps to cease using the 1989 manual, the Corps complied. But they neglected to revoke their regulatory guidance let- ter, RGL 90-7, which included the changed definition of “nor- mal circumstances.” And so the Corps now also claims au- thority over farmed wetland.

To consummate this authori- ty the Corps is now promul- gating rules to codify RGL 90-7 and to assert jurisdiction over all SCS-identified wetlands, including farmed wetlands. The Corps used an out-of- court settlement with the Na- tional Wildlife Federation in a North Carolina lawsuit to engi- neer this farmed wetland coup.

The SWCS is largely com- posed of reasonable, practical people. Many of them were raised on or have close ties to farms. We do not believe that a significant number of your members would condone the methods by which USDA and Corps of Engineers assumed authority over farmed wet- lands. We also believe that a large majority would agree that regularly-cropped, farmed wetlands should either not be regulated at all or should be

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subjected to much less strin- gent regulation than those di- rected to truly aquatic areas.

We believe that a SWCS wetland policy that fails to ad- dress existing land uses and vested property rights does a great disservice to the owners of the resources the SWCS seeks to conserve. We urge the SWCS to revise its wetland policy to address the critically important issue of regulating farmed wetlands.

Donald D. Etler, P.E. Co-chair, Legislative Committee, Iowa Drainage District Association Emmetsbu rg, IA .

Policy well written I recently reviewed SWCS’

policy position on wetlands conservation. It is a well-writ- ten document. I believe most of the policy positions apply very well to the situation here in Alberta, Canada.

I am presently a member of a governmental task force in- volved in putting together an implementation strategy for Al- berta’s draft wetland policy. The SWCS policy statements can be used during this imple- mentation exercise.

I support the efforts of your society to work towards man- agement and protection of this valuable resource.

Dan Grahn Section Head Conservation Koordinution Alberta Forest y Landfill Wildlife Edmonton, Alberta

Federal government should legislate criteria

In response to the SWCS’s new policy position on wet- lands, the Maryland Depart- ment of Environment, Water Management Administration

offers the following: This administration dis-

agrees with your suggestion that the Federal government should not legislate wetland delineation criteria. The feder- al government should legislate a specific wetland criteria and encourage states/provinces to develop Criteria which either meet o r are more stringent than this specific criteria.

Artificially-induced wetlands that result from or are inciden- tal to on-going agricultural practices should not be used for mitigation of wetland loss and should not be included in the U.S. wetland base unless these wetlands are not part of ongoing (current) practices.

D.L. Hearn Director Water Management Administration Baltimore, MD

Pen Points is a forum for readers to comment on material that bas been published in the JSWC or on land and water management issues in general. Readers are invited to eqress their views in a letter to the editor. Letters are judged on their clarity and pertinence to natural resource issues. Long letters may be shortened. Send letters to Editor, JSWC, 7515 Nortbeast Ankeny Road, Ankeny, Iowa 50023-9764;

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Beyond tbe Limits: Global cohpse or a sustainable future. D . H . M e a d o w s , D.L. Meadows, J. Randers. 300 pp., 1992. Earthscan Publications. 3 Endsleigh Street, London WClH ODD. $9.95 paper; $19.95 hardback. This is an updated and en-

larged version of The Limits to Growth, which sold nine mil- lion copies in 29 languages when published in 1972. It was very wordy and rather hard work but aroused a great deal of interest about the dan- gers to the environment. The new edition has now grown from 200 pages to 300 pages.

It would have undoubtedly been more readable with a sympathetic but tough editor who had to be Gonvinced that every paragraph .and every di- agram was really necessary. Or a ten-page executive sum- mary would have been wel- come.

But even without the ex- travaganza of the Rio Summit, it is obvious that the world faces serious problems with famine, civil war, and the degradation of natural re- sources. The questionable issue is whether it is appropri- ate to put all the blame for the mess onto growth, for there are those who argue that only by managed growth can we break out of present world poverty.

I wrote about the first book that the authors had probably arrived at the right conclu- sions, although the routes and the assumptions and logic are questionable. That same com- ment can be applied to Be- yond the Limits.

Soil and Water Consewa- tion in sub-Sabaran Afric-m Towards Sustain- able Production by tbe Rural Poor. Edited by W.R. S. Critchley, C.P. Reij, and S.D. Turner. 110 pp., 1992. Centre for Develop- ment Cooperation Services,

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The Free University Ams- terdam, Van d e r Beo- chorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Nether- lands.

The Centre for Develop- ment Cooperation Services has in recent years been commis- sioned by IFAD, to undertake a number of studies and re- ports related to different as- pects of land use, water con- servation, land degradation, and strategies for soil and water conservation, in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa under their “Special Programme for sub-Saharan African Countries affected by Drought and Desertification.” This report brings together the essential features of the many discussion documents and re- ports prepared for the pro- gram.

The geographical scope of the report is the whole of Africa south of the Sahara but it is concentrated on the coun- tries identified by IFAD as eli- gible for assistance under their special program directed to- ward drought and desertifica- tion.

The first section covers the quantification, causes, and processes of land degradation. The next section is responses to land degradation with a particular interest in traditional systems of cultivation and in- digenous responses to land degradation and the break- down of these systems in the Colonial period and after inde- pendence. The lessons learned are spelled out in some detail. The next section is on design issues in soil conservation, the technical issues, socio-eco- nomic issues, and institutional issues. The last section is de- voted to strategies for moving towards sustainable produc- tion.

There are annexes on in- digenous soil and water con- servation practices, soil and water conservation in the Colonial period and since in-

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dependence. There is a com- plete bibliography and refer- ences.

Although the content of the report is highly technical, it has been very carefully and successfully produced to make it attractive and understand- able, not only by technical people but also opinion form- ers, decisionmakers, political scientists, and all disciplines concerned with the problems of agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa.-NOR- MAN W. HUDSON, Silsoe As- soc iatio n, A mpth ill, Bedfo rd, Great Britain

General Culture, Conflict and Com-

munication in the Wild- land /Urban Interface. Edit- ed by Alan W. Ewert. 288pp. , 1993. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. $29.50.

Integrating Sustainable Agri- culture, Ecology, and Envi- ronmental Policy. Edited by Richard K. Olson. 161 pp., 1992. Food Products Press, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580. $32.95 hard- cover, $25.95 softbound.

Acid Rain-Its Causes and Its Effects on Inland Waters. By B.J. Mason. 126 pp., 1992. Oxford University Press, New York, NY 10016. $35.00.

Victim. By Bruce G. Siminoff. 264 pp., 1993. Glenbridge Publishing Co., Lakewood, CO 80232. $19.95.

Compendium of Veterinary Products. Edited by Kristina Bennett. 1,000 pp . , 1993. North American Compendi- ums Inc., Port Huron, MI 48090. $75.00, plus $7.50 shipping and handling.

One Square Mile-An Artist’s Journal of America’s Heart- land. By Cathy Johnson. 210 pp., 1993. Walker and Company, New York, NY 10019. $17.95.

Application of Satellite Data for Mapping and Monitor- ing Wetlands. By Federal Geographic Data Commit-

tee, Wetlands Subcommit- tee. 40 pp., 1992. Federal Geographic Data Commit- tee, Reston, VA 22092.

Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Envi- ronmental Integrity and Economic Efficiency. Edited by M. D. Young; and Shift- ing AgriGulture and Sus- tainable Development: An I n te rd isc ip 1 in a ry Study from North-Eastern India. Edited by P.S. Ramakrish- man, volumes 9 and 10, 1992. Parthenon Publish- ing, 120 Mill Road, Park Ridge, NJ 07656.

Environmental Health & Safe- ty Book and Video Catalog: Fall 1992. 49 pp . , 1992. Government Institutes, 4 Research Place, Suite 200, Rockville, MD 20850.

Population Growth, Poverty, and Environmental Fron- tier Migration in the Philip- pines and Costa Rica. By Maria Concepcion Cruz, Carrie Meyer, Robert Repet- to, and Richard Woodward. 92 pp, 1992. World Re- sources Institute, Washing- ton, D.C. 20006. $9.95.

Practical Handbook for Wet- land Identification and De- lineation. By John G. Lyon. 208 pp., 1993. Lewis Pub- l ishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $59.95.

Co n s t r u c t e d We t 1 a n ds f o r Wa t e r Q u a 1 i ty Imp rove- ment. Edited by Gerald A. Moshiri. 560pp., 1993. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, F1 33431. $79.95.

Created and Natural Wet- lands for Controlling Non- point Source Pollution. U.S. EPA. 224 pp., 1993. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $49.95/

Creating Freshwater Wet-

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lands.-By Donald A. Ham- mer. 312 pp., 1992. Boca Raton, FL 33431. $38.00. Guide to Wetland Function- al Design. By Anne D. Mar- ble. 240 pp., 1992. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $52.00.

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A n Approach to Improving Decision Muking in Wet- land Restoration and Cre- ation. By Mary E. Kentula, Robert P. Brooks, Stephanie E. Gwin, Cindy C. Holland, Arthur D. Sher- man, and Jean C. Sifneos. 192 pp., 1993. Lewis Pub- lishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $39.95.

The 199.3 Information Please Environmental Almanac. Compiled b.y World Re- sources Institute. 704 p ~ . , 1993. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, NY. $10.95 pa- perback.

Agriculture Agricultural Dema nd-Side

Management. 205 pp. 1993. Northeast Regional Agricu- latural Engineering Service, Ithaca, NY. $20.00.

Conservation Tillage Systems and Management. 140 pp., 1993. Midwest Plan Service, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. $19.25.

Agricultural Ecosystem Effects on Trace Gases and Global Climate Change. Edited by Lowry A. Harper, Arvin R. Mosier, John M. Duxbury, and Dennis E. Rolston. 206 pp., 1993. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, WI. $30.00.

A New Technological Era for American Agriculture. By the Office of Technology Assessment-U.S. Congress. 464 pp., 1992. U.S. Govern- ment Printing Office, Wash- ington, D.C. $23.00.

Ag ric ult u re, E n viro n men t, and S o c i e t p Contempory Issues for Australia. Edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Frank Vanclay, and Brian Furze. 337 pp., 1992. Macmillan Australia, 107 Moray St., South Melbourne 3205. $32.95 paper; $64.95 hardbound.

Vetiver Grass-A Thin Green Line against Erosion. By the Board on Science and Tech- nology for International De- velopment, National Re-

search Council. 169 p ~ . , 1993. National Academy Press. Washington, D.C.

Toward Rational Use of High Salinity Tolerant Plants: Vol- ume 1: Deliberations about High Salinity Tolerant Plants and Ecosystems. Edit- ed by H. Lieth and A. A1 Massoum. 536 pp., 1992. Kluwer Academic Publish- ers, Dordrecht, The Nether- lands.

Johnsongrass-Control in Corn With and Without Preplant Tillage. By Harold R. Hurst. 8 pp., 1992. Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Missis- sippi State, MS 39762.

Oat Science and Technology. Edited by H.G. Marshall and M.E. Sorrells. 870 pp., 1992. Crop Science Society of America, Madison, WI 53711-1086. $48.00.

Ecology Using Economic Incentives to

Regulate Toxic Substances. By Molly K . Macauley, Michael D. Bowes, and Karen L. Palmer. 161 pages, 1993. Resources for the Fu- ture, Baltimore, MD 21211. $24.95 cloth, plus $3.00 shipping and handling.

Tapestry- A n Eclectic Approach to Preser- vation. Edited by Samuel I. Zeveloff, L. Mike1 Vause, and William H. McVaugh. 306 pp., 1992. The Universi- ty of Nevada Press, Reno Nevada 89557-0076. $29.95 hardbound.

Troubled L a s d s - n e Legacy of Soviet Environmental De- struction. By DJ. Peterson. 288 pp., 1993. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. $49.95 hardbound; $19.95, soft- bound.

Environmental Risk, Environ- mental Values, and Political ChoiceeBeyond Efficiency Tradeoffs in Public Policy Analysis. Edited by John Martin Gillroy. 224 pp., 1993. Westview Press, Boul- der, CO. $35.00.

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1993 Directory of County En- vironmental Studies. By World Resources Institute in cooperation with the Inter- national Institute for Envi- ronment and Development and The World Conserva- tion Union. 230 pp., 1993. World Resouces Institute, Washington, D.C. $19.95.

Fish and Wildlife The Effects of Resource Distrib-

ution on Animal-Plant In- teractions. Edited by Mark D. Hunter, Takayuki Oh- gushi, and Peter W. Price. 505 pp., 1992. Academic Press-Harcourt Brace Jora- novich, San Diego, CA. $89.00

Toxicology and Pesticide Use in Relation to Wildlife: 0 rga n op h osp h o rus a n d Carbamate Compounds. 176 pp. 1992. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL 33431. $59.95.

Population Characteristics and Simulation: Modeling of Black Ducks. By Warren Wayne Blandin. 200 pp., 1992. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. 20240.

Duckdata: A Bibliographic Data Base for North Ameri- can Waterfowl (Anatidae) and Their Wetland Habi- tats. By Kenneth J. Reinecke and Don Delnicki. 8 pp., 1992. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. 20240.

The Climate is Right for Ac- tion: Volunta ry Programs to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. U.S. EPA. 1992. Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Global Change Data and Information Manage- ment Program Plan. White House Office of Science and Technology. 1992. Washington D.C.

The Greenhouse Debate Con- tinued: A n Analysis and Critique of the IPCC Climate Assessment. Edited by S . Fred Singer. 1992. ICS Press, San Francisco, CA.

Forests

Air Pollution’s Toll on Forests and Crops. Edited by James J . MacKenzie and Mo- hamed T. El-Ashry. 384 p ~ . , 1992. Yale University Press, $20.00 paperback.

Afforestation Policy, Plan - ning, and Progress. By Alexander S . Mather. 224 pp., 1993. CRC Press, Boca Raton, F1 33431. $69.95.

Ground-Application Trial of Hexazinone on the Ottawa National Forest. By Michael A. Wehr, James A. Mattson, Roger W. Bofinger, and Robert L. Sajdak. 34 pp., 1992. North Central Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Estimation of Shrub Leaf Bio- mass Available to White- Tailed Deer. By Lynn L. Rogers and Ronald E. McRoberts. 16 pp., 1992. North Central Forest Exper- iment Station, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Calculating Competition in Thinned Northern Hard- woods. By Sharon A. Win- sauer and James A. Matt- son. 10 pp., 1992. North Central Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Ser- vice, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Missouri’s Forest Resource, 1989: An Analysis. By John S . Spencer Jr., Sue M. Rous- sopoulos, and Robert Mas- sengale. 84 pp., 1992. North Central Forest Exper- iment Station, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Law, Legislation, Politics A New Generation of Environ-

mental Leadership: Action for the Environment and the Economy. World Resurces Institute. 40 pp., 1993. World Resources In- stitute, Washington, D .C. $12.95 paperback.

Strategic Planning in Local Government: A Case book. By Roger Kemp. 188 pp.,

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1992. American Planning Association, Washington, D.C. 20036. $29.95 soft- bound.

Customer Service i n Local Government: Challenges for Planners and Managers. By Bruce W. McClendon. 226 pp., 1992. American Plan- ning Association, Washing- ton, D.C. 20036. $49.95 hardcover; $34.95 soft- bound.

Soils Soil Geomorphology. By J .

Gerrard. 269 pp., 1993. By John Gerrard. Chapman & Hall, London, England. $990.95 cloth, $31.50 paper.

Building Soils for Better Crops-Organic Matter Management. By Fred Magdoff. 170 pp . , 1993. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE 68588. $22.95.

Practical Handbook for Wet- land Identification and De- lineation. By John G. Lyon. 208 pp., 1993. Lewis Pub-

lishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $59.95.

Current Viewpoints on the Use of Soil Nitrate Tests in the South. Edited by K.L. Wells and W.R. Thompson Jr. 62 pp., 1992. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, WI. $18.00 softbound.

Water Resources Hydrocarbon Con ta mina ted

Soil and Groundwater, Pro- ceedings of the 1990-91-92 Conferences. Edited by Paul T. Kostecki, Edward J. Cal- abrese, and Marc Bona- zountas. 354 pp. , 1993. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $69.95.

Wa t e r- Th e I n tern a t io n a 1 Crisis. By Robin Clarke. 193 pp., 1993. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. $30.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

A rid Waters- Photographs from the Water in the West Project. Edited by Peter Goin. Text by Ellen Man- Chester. 104 pp., 1992. The University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV 89557-0076.

$29.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. Water Users Associations in

World Bank-Assisted Irriga- tion Projects in Pakistan. By Kerry J. Bymes. 84 pp., 1992. The World Bank, Washington, D . C .

Drainage Guidelines. By Wal- ter J. Ochs and Bishay G. Bishay. 186 pp., 1992. The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Water Resources Institu- tio-Some Principles and Practices. By Harald D. Frederiksen. 40 pp., 1992. The World Bank, Washing- ton, D.C.

Solar P u m p i n p A n Introduc- t ion and Update on the Technology, Perf0 rma n ce, Costs, and Economics. By Roy Barlow, Bernard Mc- Nelis, and Anthony Derrick. 153 pp., 1993. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 20433.

Drainage and Water Table ControOProceedings of the Sixth International Drain- age Symposium. By Ameri- can Society of Agricultural Engineers. 1993. ASAE, St.

Joseph, MI 49085-9659. $54.00 softbound, plus $3.50 shipping and han- dling.

Waste Management Ag ric ultu ra 1 Waste Manage-

ment Field Handbook. By the Soil Conservation Ser- vice. 1993. SCS National Engineering Handbook, Washington, D.C. 20013.

Air, Waste, and Environmen- tal Management Research Fa c u 1 ty Profile Directory . Air and Waste Management Association, 199.3. Air and Waste Management Associ- ation, Pittsburgh, PA 15230. $79.95 for book, $495 for 3.5 inch computer disk.

Municip.al Sludge Use in Land Reclamation. By William Sopper. 184 pp . , 1993. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $59.95.

Practical Handbook of Com- post Engineering. By Roger T. Huag. 762 pp. , 1993. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL 33431. $75.00.

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