What you will learn
- Understand to include various water users and uses and their respective spatial levels, from farm, to scheme, to river basin, both upstream and downstream.
- Explain the allocation, distribution, governance and use of both groundwater and surface water and apply the basic principles of estimating irrigation water requirements.
- Understand the relation between water technologies, management, governance & policy.
- Analyse the interrelations between institutional and infrastructural designs for sustainable water management in agriculture.
- Understand the concept of drainage and its role in agricultural water management and design drainage systems that enable more operational control.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
2 skill-building courses
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4 months
9 - 10 hours per week
Discounted price: $304.20
Pre-discounted price: $338USD
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Courses in this program
WageningenX's Water & Drainage in Agriculture Professional Certificate
- Agricultural Water Management: Water,-Society and Technology Interactions
- Drainage in Agriculture: controlling water and salt levels in the soil
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