scholarly journals RATIONALIZATION OF IRRIGATION WATER IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR THROUGH INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Fouad A.F. Khalil ◽  
Rashad Abouenein
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Integrated Water Management

scholarly journals Irrigation Water Costs and Management Practices Among Farms m Northern Oman

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
W.H. Shayya ◽  
A.S. Al-Ghafry ◽  
W.R. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Effective Development

This paper reports on findings from an irrigation water management study conducted in northern Oman. Although numerous descriptive accounts exist, quantitative research on the management and costs of irrigation water has been limited. As a result, very little is understood about the technical and economic performance of dominant irrigation practices within the agricultural sector. Based on research results from farmer surveys and direct monitoring of water use in the region, an attempt is made to provide a more thorough understanding of the costs to the farmer for irrigation water and related levels of water use performance. This paper argues that there is an inverse relationship between the cost to the farmer for irrigation water and the way that the water is managed. When access to ground water is available at relatively low costs, there is a tendency for the resource to he used excessively and managed inefficiently. This, in turn results in serious environmental consequences and threatens the sustainability of irrigated agricultural production in the region. In such cases, alternatives must be sought by which unrestricted access to low cost water can be limited. The paper also discusses existing programs and suggests priorities, which will serve to facilitate effective development planning and the establishment of appropriate water management and irrigation programs

scholarly journals INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT AND DURABILITY OF LANDSCAPE OF PUBLIC IRRIGATED AREAS IN TUNISIA: CASES OF PUBLIC IRRIGATED AREAS OF CHOTT-MARIEM AND MORNAG

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Abdelkarim Hamrita ◽  
Amira Boussetta ◽  
Rafael Mata Olmo ◽  
Mehdi Saqalli ◽  
Hichem Rejeb
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Crop Intensification

An important part of the landscape of irrigated areas in Tunisia is the result of morphology, organization and operation of agricultural policies implemented since independence, aimed at optimizing the exploitation of the best soils and natural resources, particularly water and productive crop intensification. The sustainability of the landscape of public irrigated areas has a strong bonding with the resources of irrigation water and their states of management. The scarcity of irrigation water due to drought generates profound changes in many public irrigated areas as Chott-Mariem and Mornag, like standpoint operating (decrease of production) and land occupation (transformation of agricultural land to urban land). An investigation was carried out with farmers, leaders and policy makers, which the result was a range of measures and recommendations to promote sustainability of agricultural landscape.

Agricultural Use of Reclaimed Water - Experiences in Jordan

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Vallentin
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
Reclaimed Water ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Agricultural Use ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
National Water

Due to extreme water scarcity Jordan is integrating reclaimed water resources in the national water management system. This paper describes the recent framework conditions for reclaimed water use in agriculture in Jordan, with a focus on the central and southern Jordan Valley. The possible impacts of lower quality irrigation water on soil, groundwater, crops and human health are considered while appropriate guidelines and monitoring proposals are being developed. Testing of the guidelines and implementation of the monitoring systems have started with the final purpose of integrating them into the Jordanian standard and legal system and thus ensuring safe food for consumers and protection of the environment.

The Water in the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria De Poblet, Tarragona, Spain

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
J.L. De la Peña ◽  
M. De la Peña ◽  
M. Salgot ◽  
Ll. Torcal
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Management System ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Semiarid Conditions

The history and water-related features in the Poblet Cistercian Monastery, located in Tarragona province, Spain are described. The study is undertaken with the main purpose of obtaining data for the establishment of an integrated water management system inside the walls of the abbey, which is suffering water scarcity due to increasing demands and the prevalent semiarid conditions.

Living with water: at the cross-roads of change

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost de Jong ◽  
Peter T. J. C. van Rooy ◽  
S. Harry Hosper
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Perception ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Water Quality Deterioration ◽  
The Way

Until the last two decades, the global perception of how to control our various water bodies was remarkably similar – water management was organised on a sectoral basis, as it always had been. It was only in the 1970s that the people actually responsible for implementing water management began to become aware of the serious implications of such an approach: water quality deterioration, desiccation and an alarming loss of the flora and fauna that characterised their local water environment. It was a growing awareness that led to the formation of the concept of integrated water management, a concept almost universally accepted today as the way forward. However, despite the fact that few dispute the validity of the concept, a number of obstacles remain before this theoretical agreement can be transformed into practical action. Three main bottlenecks stand in the way of implementation: institutional, communicational and socio-political. Whilst solutions to these are available, the key question still to be answered is whether society is really prepared to accept the consequent changes in the way we live that will result from putting the theory of integrated water management into practice. It was this issue that dominated the “Living with water” conference held in Amsterdam in September 1994. The following is a summary of the discussions held there and the various papers that were submitted.

Policy analysis and complexity – a non-equilibrium approach for integrated water management

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Govert D. Geldof
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Control System ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Equilibrium Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Groundwater Policy ◽  
Non Equilibrium

In integrated water management, the issues are often complex by nature, they are capable of subjective interpretation, are difficult to express in standards and exhibit many uncertainties. For such issues, an equilibrium approach is not appropriate. A non-equilibrium approach has to be applied. This implies that the processes to which the integrated issue pertains, are regarded as “alive”’. Instead of applying a control system as the model for tackling the issue, a network is used as the model. In this network, several “agents”’ are involved in the modification, revision and rearrangement of structures. It is therefore an on-going renewal process (perpetual novelty). In the planning process for the development of a groundwater policy for the municipality of Amsterdam, a non-equilibrium approach was adopted. In order to do justice to the integrated character of groundwater management, an approach was taken, containing the following features: (1) working from global to detailed, (2) taking account of the history of the system, (3) giving attention to communication, (4) building flexibility into the establishing of standards, and (5) combining reason and emotions. A middle course was sought, between static, rigid but reliable on the one hand; dynamic, flexible but vague on the other hand.

Coping with uncertainties in integrated urban water management

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 265-269
Author(s):  
Govert D. Geldof
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Monte Carlo Simulation ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Management ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Good Design ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Simulation Results

In the practice of integrated water management we meet complexity, subjectivity and uncertainties. Uncertainties come into play when new urban water management techniques are applied. The art of a good design is not to reduce uncertainties as much as possible, but to find the middle course between cowardice and recklessness. This golden mean represents bravery. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to reach consensus. Calculating uncertainties by using Monte Carlo simulation results may be helpful.

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