Evaluation of performance of irrigation canals using benchmarking techniques –a case study of Hirakud dam canal system, Odisha, India

Rath, Ashutosh; Swain, Prakash Chandra

doi:10.1080/09715010.2018.1439777

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“…Zeng et al [1] optimized the control of cascaded irrigation canals by controlling the minimum water levels required for irrigation and preventing dam collapse as a result of water overflows using control gates and interconnected long-distance reaches. Rath and Swain [2] evaluated the performance of the Hirakud canal system in Odisha, India. The flow was measured by an ADV flow tracker.…”

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Spatial and Temporal Effects of Irrigation Canals Rehabilitation on the Land and Crop Yields, a Case Study: The Nile Delta, Egypt

Abd-Elziz

Zeleňáková

Kršák

et al. 2022

Water

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Shortage of surface water is considered an international problem that has even extended to countries that have rivers, in particular countries sharing the same river basins and downstream countries, such as Egypt. This issue requires intensive management of available water resources. Irrigation Canals Rehabilitation (ICR) has become essential to protect surface water in irrigation canals from losses due to seepage. Egypt is one of the countries that has started using this technique. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of ICR using concrete on the land and on crop yields. The SEEP/W model is used in the current study to estimate changes in the groundwater table and moisture in the root zone. Three cases studies have been simulated and compared including unlined, lined, and lined canals with a drainage pipe. The methodology is applied to three canals in the Nile Delta: Sero, Dafan, and New-Aslogy. The results demonstrate that ICR has decreased the losses from canals which resulted in lowering the groundwater, where the case of lining gave a higher reduction than the case of lining with a drainage pipe. In addition, the water table underneath the embankment was lowered. Decreasing the groundwater table could help to protect the land from logging and increase crop yields, but it may reduce the recharging of groundwater aquifers. Such a study is highly recommended in arid regions to decrease water losses where many countries are suffering from water shortage.

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Spatial and Temporal Effects of Irrigation Canals Rehabilitation on the Land and Crop Yields, a Case Study: The Nile Delta, Egypt

Abd-Elziz

Zeleňáková

Kršák

et al. 2022

Water

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“…Irrigation performance assessment examples can be found in Spain for irrigation schemes in Andalusia [14][15][16], Murcia Region [17,18], Aragon [19], and Valencian Community [20,21]. Some examples of irrigation performance assessment around the world include research works carried out in Turkey [22,23], Uzbekistan [24], Iran [25], Ethiopia [26,27], Rwanda [28], Sudan [29], Tanzania [30], China [31], India [32][33][34], Sri Lanka [35], South Korea [36], Brazil [37], and Mexico [38], among others.…”

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Assessment of Irrigation Water Use Efficiency in Citrus Orchards Using AHP

Poveda-Bautista

Merino

Puerto

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Irrigation water use efficiency, the small size of the orchards, and part-time farmers are major issues for Spanish citriculture. How should irrigation water use efficiency be assessed? Does irrigation water use efficiency improve when increasing the size of the orchards? Are full-time farmers more efficient in irrigation water use than part-time ones? To address these three questions, we propose to apply a new multicriteria approach based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique and the participation of a group of experts. A new synthetic irrigation efficiency index (IEI) was proposed and tested using data from an irrigation community (IC) and a cooperative of farmers in the East of Spain. The results showed that the size of the orchards had no relation with the IEI scoring but full-time farmers tended to have better IEI scores and, thus, were more efficient. These results were obtained from a sample of 24 orchards of oranges, navelina variety, growing in a very similar environment, and agronomical characteristics. The proposed methodology can be a useful benchmarking tool for improving the irrigation water management in other ICs taking into account the issues related to farm data sharing recorded during the case study.

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“…Research in this field has typically used the performance indicators approach [10,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] that was initially designed to evaluate irrigation development projects [19]. Most of the research focused on the hydraulic management of large irrigated areas [20][21][22][23][24] and medium or small irrigation schemes [25][26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

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Orchard Level Assessment of Irrigation Performance and Water Productivity of an Irrigation Community in Eastern Spain

Puerto

Mora²,

Merino

et al. 2021

Agronomy

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Over the last three decades, a great investment effort has been made in the modernization of irrigation in the Valencian Community (Spain). The initial change from distribution networks to pressurized ones and the shift towards drip irrigation systems was followed by improvements in irrigation scheduling, based on agrometeorological data, soil water content sensors, and remote sensing. These improvements are considered adequate for increasing irrigation water use efficiency, but it is difficult to find systematic measurements to assess its impacts on irrigation adequacy along with irrigation productivity in fruit orchards. This work presents the results of a four year assessment of irrigation water and energy use efficiency along with water productivity of a recently established irrigation community in the province of Valencia (Spain). The study was carried out at the orchard level and focused on two fruit crops: persimmon and peach trees. Six irrigation performance indicators, relative water supply (RWS), relative irrigation supply (RIS), yield performance (Yp), global water productivity (WPoverall), output per unit irrigation water (OUI), and the percent of nitrogen fertilization obtained by irrigation water, were defined and calculated for years 2017 to 2020 in 104 persimmon and peach orchards. The results showed that most of the farmers irrigated below the crop water requirements, showing RWS and RIS values less than 1, and there was great variability among farmers, especially in WPoverall and OUI indicators.

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Evaluation of performance of irrigation canals using benchmarking techniques –a case study of Hirakud dam canal system, Odisha, India

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Spatial and Temporal Effects of Irrigation Canals Rehabilitation on the Land and Crop Yields, a Case Study: The Nile Delta, Egypt

Spatial and Temporal Effects of Irrigation Canals Rehabilitation on the Land and Crop Yields, a Case Study: The Nile Delta, Egypt

Assessment of Irrigation Water Use Efficiency in Citrus Orchards Using AHP

Orchard Level Assessment of Irrigation Performance and Water Productivity of an Irrigation Community in Eastern Spain

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