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Performance assessment of irrigation water management of heterogeneous irrigation schemes: 1. A framework for evaluation

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Irrigation and Drainage Systems

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Studies of the performance assessment of irrigation schemes have gained momentum since the late 1980s due to the common perspective that the resources (land and water) in irrigation schemes are not being managed appropriately. In this paper “irrigation water management” is considered as one of the activities of the irrigation scheme. Three phases of irrigation water management namely planning, operation and evaluation are identified. A framework for the performance assessment of irrigation water management in heterogeneous irrigation schemes is proposed in this paper, based on earlier studies made in this direction. The paper presents two types of allocative measures (productivity and equity) and five types of scheduling measures (adequacy, reliability, flexibility, sustainability and efficiency), together with the methodologies for estimating these for the scheme as a whole during different phases of irrigation water management.

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Gorantiwar, S.D., Smout, I.K. Performance assessment of irrigation water management of heterogeneous irrigation schemes: 1. A framework for evaluation. Irrig Drainage Syst 19, 1–36 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10795-005-2970-9

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