Floodwater Harvesting for artificial recharge and spate irrigation in arid area
Författare
Summary, in English
Utilizing passive floodwater harvesting for artificial recharge and spate irrigation in arid and semiarid areas is an opportunity to use marginal water to improve the livelihood of rural community. In the present study, ground- water modeling to estimate recharge, and field experiments for spate irrigation of barley, were carried out to investigate the performance and potential of water harvesting system to increase water availability and agricul- tural production in arid Iran. The estimated recharge for the years between 1993 and 2007 varied from a few hundred thousand m3 per month during drought periods to about 4.5 million m3 per month during rainy periods. The experimental results of spate irrigated barley showed 2.5-fold increase in yield for the cultivated barley inside the floodwater harvesting system in compare to the cultivated plot outside the system.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
93-100
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Vatten: tidskrift för vattenvård /Journal of Water Management and research
Volym
69
Issue
2
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Föreningen Vatten
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences
- Water Engineering
Nyckelord
- Groundwater modeling
- water harvesting
- artificial recharge
- spate irrigation
- arid area
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0042-2886