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Agricultural available at www.sciencedirect.com Water Management ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/agwat Contents of Agricultural Water Management, Volume 86 VOLUME 86 ISSUES 1-2 16 NOVEMBER 2006 Special Issue on Responsible Management of Water in Agriculture Wesseling-Van Schilfgaarde-Bouwer Special Issue of Agricultural Water Management Guest Editor: Peter A.C. Raats Preface Preface P.A.C. Raats (Roden, The Netherlands) Introductory articles History of Agricultural Water Management J.D. Oster (Riverside, CA, USA), B.E. Clothier (Palmerston North, New Zealand) and D. Wichelns (Hanover, IN, USA) Contributions by Jans Wesseling, Jan van Schilfgaarde, and Herman Bouwer to effective and responsible water management in agriculture P.A.C. Raats (Roden, The Netherlands) and R.A. Feddes (WageningenT,he Netherlands) Drainage in agriculture: from theory to practice Assessing crop water productivity from field to regional scale J.G. Wesseling and R.A. Feddes (Wageningen, The Netherlands) Drainage design coefficients for eastern United States R.W. Skaggs, M.A. Youssef and G.M. Chescheir (Raleigh, NC, USA) Design and performance of materials for subsurface drainage systems in agriculture L.C.P.M. Stuyt (Wageningen, The Netherlands) and W. Dierickx (Merelbeke, Belgium) Subsurface drainage practices: From manual installation to large-scale implementation H.P. Ritzema (Wageningen, The Netherlands), H.J. Nijland (Amhem, The Netherlands) and F.W. Croon (Oosterbeek, The Netherlands) Solutes in the water: for better or worse Occurrence and biodegradability studies of selected pharmaceuticals and personal care products in sewage effluent J.T. Yu, EJ. Bouwer (Baltimore, MD, USA) and M. Coelhan (Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany) Transport and fate of manure-borne pathogens: Modeling perspective Y.A. Pachepsky, A.M. Sadeghi (Beltsville, MD, USA), S.A. Bradford (Riverside, CA, USA), D.R. Shelton, A.K. Guber (Beltsville, MD, USA and Riverside, CA, USA) and T. Dao (Beltsville, MD, USA) Calculation of non-reactive chemical distribution in surface fertigation T.S. Strelkoff, A.J. Clemmens (Maricopa, AZ, USA) and H. Perea-Estrada (Morelos, Mexico) Evaluation of urea-ammonium-nitrate fertigation with drip irrigation using numerical modeling B.R. Hanson (Davis, CA, USA), J. Simwnek (Riverside, CA, USA) and J.W. Hopmans (Davis, CA, USA) Arid and semi-arid zones agriculture: opportunities and problems Sustainable irrigation is necessary and achievable, but direct costs and environmental impacts can be substantial D. Wichelns (Indiana, USA) and J.D. Oster (Riverside, CA, USA) Controlled drainage for improved water management in arid regions irrigated agriculture J.E. Ayars (Parlier, CA, USA), E.W. Christen and J.W. Hornbuckle (Griffith, Australia) Macroscopic approaches to root water uptake as a function of water and salinity stress T.H. Skaggs, M.Th. van Genuchten, PJ. Shouse and J.A. Poss (Riverside, CA, USA) doi:10.1016/S0378-3774(06)00312-X 290 AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT 86 (2006 )289-290 Effect of SAR on water infiltration under a sequential rain-irrigation management system D.L. Suarez, J.D. Wood and S.M. Lesch (Riverside, CA, USA) Rootzone: getting it just right Root uptake and transpiration: From measurements and models to sustainable irrigation S.R. Green (Palmerston North, New Zealand), M.B. Kirkham (Manhattan, KS, USA) and B.E. Clothier (Palmerston North, New Zealand) Tall fescue and hybrid bluegrass response to soil water matric head limits J.H. Dane, R.H. Walker, L. Bahaminyakamwe and J.L. Belcher (Auburn, AL, USA) Waterpas-model: A predictive tool for water management, agriculture, and environment J.A. de Vos, P.J.T. van Bakel (Wageningen, The Netherlands), I.E. Hoving (Lelystad, The Netherlands) and ).G. Conijn (Wageningen, The Netherlands) Back to some basics Rain Infiltration into swelling/shrinking/cracking soils M.J.M. RoOmkens (Oxford, MS, USA) and S.N. Prasad (Mississippi, MS, USA) Drainage and capillary rise components in water balance of alluvial soils PJ. Kowalik (Poland) Near-surface distributions of soil water and water repellency under three effluent irrigation schemes in a blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) plantation L.A. Thwaites (Warrnambool, Australia), G.H. de Rooij (Wageningen, The Netherlands), S. Salzman, G. Allinson, F. Stagnitti, R. Carr, V. Versace (Warrnambool, Australia), S. Struck (Rostock, Germany) and T. March (Warrnambool, Australia) Chemistry of subsurface drain discharge from an agricultural polder soil D. Hesterberg (Raleigh, NC, USA), B. de Vos (Wageningen, The Netherlands) and P.A.C. Raats (Roden, The Netherlands) VOLUME 86 ISSUE 3 16 DECEMBER 2006 Simplifying complexity: Rationalising water entitlements in the Southern Connected River Murray System, Australia T. Shi (Adelaide, Australia and Glen Osmond, Australia) Riparian zone equilibrium and actual evapotranspiration in a first order agricultural catchment in Southern Ontario, Canada R.M. Petrone, C. Smith, M.L. Macrae and M.C. English (Ontario, Canada) Rainfall redistribution beneath an olive orchard G. Castro, P. Romero, J.A. Gomez and E. Fereres (Cordoba, Spain) Water use efficiency of common bean and green gram grown using alternate furrow and deficit irrigation H.A. Webber, C.A. Madramootoo, M. Bourgault (Quebec, Canada), M.G. Horst, G. Stulina (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) and D.L. Smith (Quebec, Canada) Online decision support for irrigation for farmers I. Thysen and N.K. Detlefsen (Tjele, Denmark) An evaluation of two hourly reference evapotranspiration equations for semiarid conditions R. Lopez-Urrea, F.M. de Santa Olalla, C. Fabeiro and A. Moratalla (Albacete, Spain) Short communication Identifying sources of recharge to shallow aquifers using a groundwater model D.R. Purkey, W.W. Wallender, N. Islam and B. Sivakumar (West Palm Beach, FL, USA) Contents of Agricultural Water Management, Volume 86