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Investigation on water delivery performance and its quantification in large-scale Beni Amir irrigation scheme, Morocco

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Title Investigation on water delivery performance and its quantification in large-scale Beni Amir irrigation scheme, Morocco
 
Creator Dayyabu, Muhammad
 
Contributor Shimizu, Katsuyuki
YAMAZAKI, Yuri
Nangia, Vinay
Mansouri, Anas
Belaarabi, Mohamed
Ousstous, Lahcen
 
Subject irrigation water requirement
water delivery performance
dryland
 
Description In many arid regions of the world, irrigated agriculture is the dominant water user. Monitoring irrigation system performance and improving water use efficiency are integral to sustainable water management due to increasing water demands for agriculture and other sectors under limited water resources and climate change conditions. Morocco is a country that severely affects current and future water scarcity. This study investigated the planning and management of water delivery practices and assessed the water delivery performance (WDP) of the Beni Amir irrigation scheme of about 34,000 ha in Morocco. WDP was evaluated at the lateral canal level in terms of adequacy, dependability, and equity. There are 14 lateral canals in the scheme, and they were categorized into 3 parts: head, middle, and tail. The data on climate and crops, such as cropping areas and patterns, were used to calculate irrigation water requirements for 2016, 2017, and 2018. We collected the daily discharge of each lateral canal and irrigation time for each field to calculate the monthly water supply to all fields. These calculations were aggregated on 10-day intervals based on irrigation frequency and the performance indicators were calculated. The water delivery performance: adequacy, dependability, and equity, were evaluated as fair and poor in all years. However, the dependability of water distribution to farmers is not as low as expressed in the indicator.
 
Date 2024-08-14T18:17:59Z
2024-08-14T18:17:59Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/downloadmelspace/hash/5fe9e085c34341ff6d44a65fe93aa1a5
Muhammad Dayyabu, Katsuyuki Shimizu, Yuri YAMAZAKI, Vinay Nangia, Anas Mansouri, Mohamed Belaarabi, Lahcen Ousstous. (30/7/2024). Investigation on water delivery performance and its quantification in large-scale Beni Amir irrigation scheme, Morocco. Journal of Arid Land Studies, 34 (S), pp. 45-49.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/69474
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Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; Non-commercial educational use only
 
Publisher The Japanese Association for Arid Land Studies
 
Source Journal of Arid Land Studies;34,(2024) Pagination 45-49