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Canal operations planner. II: minimizing inequity

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Title Canal operations planner. II: minimizing inequity
 
Creator Anwar, Arif A.
Vries, T.T. de
Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
 
Subject irrigation systems
irrigation canals
irrigation operation
water distribution
water supply
equity
seasonal cropping
performance indexes
farmers
mathematical models
 
Description Equity of water distribution is an oft-repeated and stated aim of the warabandi irrigation systems prevalent in Pakistan and parts of India. The Canal Operations Plan is one tool used to operationalize equitable distribution of water. These plans are created for every canal system every crop season. This companion paper applies operations research tools to this problem and explicitly minimizes inequity as measured by the Gini index of the cumulative depth of water supplied. The results are analyzed and compared with those obtained from the models of the companion paper that maximize delivery performance ratio (DPR) and conclude that the linear programme-delivery performance ratio (LP-DPR) model given in the companion paper is overall slightly superior to the linear programme-inequity (LP-INEQ) model presented in this paper. This paper highlights that a performance indicator of equity such as the Gini may not fully capture the sense of fairness from a farmer’s perspective. Application of this research is demonstrated through an engineering application in the preparation of a canal operations plan for the summer 2016 and winter 2016–2017 crop season.
 
Date 2016-12
2016-11-23T05:34:05Z
2016-11-23T05:34:05Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Anwar, Arif A.; de Vries, T. T.; Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif. 2016. Canal operations planner. II: minimizing inequity. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 7p. (Online first) doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0001092
0733-9437
1943-4774
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77843
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0001092
 
Language en
 
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Limited Access
 
Format 7p. (Online first)
 
Publisher American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
 
Source Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering