Water Use in the Irrigation Zone and Current Environmental Challenges
This article focuses on the problems of irrigation water use in the Kur – Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan Republic. Based on the analysis of the current condition of the irrigation management, it has been proposed the ways of its improvement, taking into account the peculiarities of arid zones of the country with consideration of the ongoing global climate changes and connected with the latter the necessity of optimization of water resources use and environmental protection of the irrigated areas. Importance of climate changes’ consideration in the process of reconstruction and new construction of waterwork facilities in order to ensure the condition for the sustainable irrigation systems operation, allowing improving water use efficiency through the rational use of the available water resources and achieving of the high cropyield has been substantiated.