Irrigation Water Management: Training Manual No. 6 - Scheme Irrigation Water Needs and Supply

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Provisional edition

a manual prepared jointly
by
C. Brouwer,
J.P.M. Hoevenaars
B.E. van Bosch, Consultant

International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI)

and
N. Hatcho
M. Heibloem
FAO Land and Water
Development Division

Drawings by J. van Dijk, The International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Relationship of this manual to foregoing training manuals
1.2 Some definitions
1.3 Summary of the manual

2. WATER SOURCES AND WATER AVAILABILITY

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Water sources
2.1.2 Water availability
2.1.3 Methods of tapping water from water sources

2.2 Rivers

2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Tapping water from rivers
2.2.3 Availability of river flow

2.3 Reservoirs and lakes

2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 Water availability in lakes and reservoirs
2.3.3 Water tapping from a reservoir

2.4 Groundwater

2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Groundwater availability
2.4.3 Pumping from wells

3. SCHEME IRRIGATION WATER NEED AND SUPPLY

3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Approximate Method
3.3 Cropping Pattern
3.4 The Calculation Method

3.4.1 Scheme irrigation need for a simple cropping system
3.4.2 Scheme irrigation needs for a multiple cropping system
3.4.3 Determining the irrigation need for a rice-based cropping pattern

3.5 Converting from SIN_net to SIN_op

4. MATCHING WATER NEEDS AND SUPPLY

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Command Area
4.3 Matching SIN_gross, and SWS

ANNEX I.1 Diagram to show the calculation of SIN_gross

ANNEX I.2 Diagram to show the matching of need and supply

ANNEX II Conversion table of mm/day into l/s/ha

ANNEX III.1 Data sheet 1: Determination of net scheme irrigation need for a single cropping system

ANNEX III.2 Data sheet 2: Determination of net scheme irrigation needs for a multiple cropping system

ANNEX III.3 Data sheet 3: Determination of net scheme irrigation need for rice

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