TY - JOUR AU - Kelley, Robert L. AU - Nye, Ronald L. TI - Historical perspective on salinity and drainage problems in California JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1984/10/01 VL - 38 IS - 10 SP - 4 EP - 6 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://www.ucanr.edu/sites/calagjournal/archive/?article=ca.v038n10p4 AB - Not available – first paragraph follows: Salinity and drainage problems have plagued agriculture in California from the time irrigation was introduced in the second half of the nineteenth century. The emergence and spread of such problems, and the variety of ways in which irrigators and public agencies have responded to them, may be traced in the histories of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys.