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MANAGEMENT OF A FOREIGN WATER‐RESOURCES RESEARCH PROJECT
Author(s) -
Patchick Paul F.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1968.tb05762.x
Subject(s) - groundwater , water resources , christian ministry , agriculture , government (linguistics) , surface water , water resource management , groundwater resources , environmental planning , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental resource management , environmental science , geology , aquifer , geography , environmental engineering , political science , archaeology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , law , biology
The United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of El Salvador, Central America, recently completed a 3‐year groundwater exploration, research and evaluation project in the lower basin of the Rio Grande de San Miguel. As no comprehensive water resources study had previously been conducted in El Salvador, this project served as a pilot example of a balanced, integrated, scientific approach to a regional evaluation. It combined surface and groundwater hydrology with surface geology, hydro‐meteorology, and sub‐surface exploration by means of drilling and geophysical techniques. This paper describes how the project was planned, financed, organized, implemented, conducted, and managed. It further describes inter‐relationships between the geological and engineering phases carried out from 1961 to 1964, and the results of the field and laboratory research. Finally, this paper presents a summary of recommended groundwater and valley development programs, and discusses briefly post‐project development programs resulting from the basic research.