Drainage runoff potential assessment in Russia for humidification purposes with drainage-watering application systems
Purpose: to assess the drainage runoff potential in Russia for humidification purposes using drainage-watering systems. Materials and methods. The informational basis of the research was made up of information received from federal state budgetary institutions on land reclamation and agricultural water supply, in the context of the diverted drainage runoff volume from drainage, drainage-watering and drainage-irrigation systems of double soil water regime control as well as data from annual monitoring. The following software products Microsoft Excel, ArcGIS, MathCAD were used to process the data on drainage runoff indicators. General scientific methods were used to analyze the data obtained on drainage runoff volume and graphic material. Results. When quantifying the drainage runoff volume and its mineralization, complications associated with a shortage, and in some cases with a lack of data on drainage runoff from reclamation systems arose. Based on the data received, 22 regions with operating drainage reclamation systems were identified. For each reclamation system, the drainage runoff volume and the total area of drained lands were determined. The regions with the largest, sufficient and insignificant volumes runoff have been identified. For some regions, data on the salinity of the drainage runoff were obtained and analyzed. Conclusions. As a result of analysis it was revealed that almost 50 % of the territories served by drainage systems can be moistened with drainage runoff in full volume of all serviced areas with accumulation in regulating tanks; in the rest of the regions additional water withdrawal from the water source is required. Indicators of drainage runoff salinity are 0.22–1.60 g/l, in some systems they reach 2.1–4.7 g/l, which indicates the possibility of using agricultural crops in irrigation on various types of soils and for fish farming.