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<br />assistance programs to induce wide-spread adoption and use by farmers. <br />Off-farm measures in most cases will require governmental action at some <br />level. <br /> <br />Where public financing or assistance would be required, it is possible <br />that some reasonable degree of ground water resource management, in addition <br />to that already being practiced, would be required as a condition of eligi- <br />bility. <br /> <br />The purpose of Regional Study Element B-3 is a comprehensive assessment <br />of available and potential agricultural/water use management practices and <br />technologies for reduction in unit water demand with relevance for the High <br />Plains-Ogallala Aquifer Region. The assessment has the objectives of: <br />1) identifying relevant management and technological advances with water <br />conservation and efficiencies of use potentials for the High Plains-Ogallala <br />Aquifer Region, 2) evaluating the relative effectiveness, applicability, <br />costs, and associated input requirements for each practice/technology, along <br />with estimating probable impacts on rates of water use, crop yields, environ- <br />mental effects and other related factors, 3) estimating and forecasting the <br />extent of present and potential future use of selected practices/technologies <br />in cooperation with the separate states and projecting reasonable time-frames <br />for widespread adoption, 4) examining and assessing methods to encourage and <br />facilitate adoption and use of selected practices/technologies, and 5) iden- <br />tifying the need, priorities and potential benefits and costs of further <br />research and operational testing of selected practices and technologies to <br />better define their applicability and feasibility in the High Plains-Ogallala <br />Aquifer Region. <br /> <br />Regional Study Element B-3 is intended to provide guidance to policy and <br />decision makers for information and assessments of measures for unit water <br />demand reduction or conservation that could be considered for early action as <br />an initial step toward a long-term solution to regional aquifer overdraft <br />conditions. More detailed assessments, along with additional information <br />on needed research, methods for achieving large scale adoption of new manage- <br />ment and technology, and other related information were provided to state <br />research groups as guidance during the state farm-level (A-I) analysis of <br /> <br />xxi <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />