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The decrease of annual irrigation application rate observed since 1950 was reversed in 1988 as a result of a sudden increase of the amount of treated effluents used for irrigation. Intensification of research on irrigation with effluents and marginal water starting in 1994 resulted four years later in the renewal of the decrease of irrigation application rate.
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Michal Gurevich, Administrative Director of the ARO Research Authority, provided the listing of all public funded agricultural research projects carried out by research institutes, extensions, universities, and regional research and development, from which the data shown in the figure were computed.
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Communicated by E. Fereres.
Contribution No. 614/06 from the Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel.
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Fuchs, M. Impact of research on water use for irrigation in Israel. Irrig Sci 25, 443–445 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-006-0050-z
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