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Agricultural Irrigation - Crop Production - Drinking Water -
Lakes / Ponds / Streams - Lawn and Landscape Irrigation - Lawns,
Landscapes and Gardens - Livestock Manure Management - Policy /
Law / Economics / Human Behavior - Stormwater Management -
Wastewater - Domestic Sewage - Water Basics (groundwater,
surface water, hydrology) - Well and Wellhead Management Crop
Water Use (Evapotranspiration) The evapotranspiration (ET)
process is a key variable in many disciplines including, -
irrigation management, - crop growth, - hydrologic cycle, -
plant physiology, - soil-plant-water-atmosphere relationships, -
microclimate and surface interactions, and - drainage studies.
ET can be defined in a broad definition as the combined process
of both evaporation from soil and plant surfaces and
transpiration from plant canopies through the stomates to the
atmosphere. In the ET process, water is transferred from the
soil and plant surfaces into the atmosphere in the