The Performance Assessment in Irrigation Systems: The Case of Turkey

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 30 - 36, 30.08.2017

Mehmet Akif Kalender Ramazan Topak

Abstract

Water is an essential
resource for human’s live maintaining. Alongside it supplies people with daily
needs, water is used for the purpose of agriculture, energy production,
industry and tourism. The increase of population and industrialisation have
caused both rise of present water consumption and contamination of present
water resources. For this reason, water is among the resources should be used
efficiently in the world. Water used in agriculture is considerably more than
the other sectors use. Comparing with the developed and European countries,
water percentage used in agriculture in Turkey is much more. It is known that
water resources decreased and would decrease even more due to population
increase, climate changes and unconscious uses. It is known that due to
population increase, climate changes and unconscious uses, water resources
decreased and will decrease even more. While Turkey is not among the countries
suffered from water shortages, present water resources should be carefully used
due to rapid population growth, pollution and the average annual precipitation
lower than the world average and should be immediately taken the necessary
precautions against contamination. Therefore, especially in agriculture, water
must be used economical, conscious and in a planned way. Regarding this issue,
one of the applications should be performed is performance assessments of
irrigation. Studies about performance assessments of irrigation are carried out
by the Irrigation Association to determine and take necessary measures the
inabilities and problems on irrigation by evaluating of the present water
potential in any area. In this review, performance assessments of irrigation
studies carried out by Irrigation Associations were summarised.

Keywords

Assessment criteria, irrigation, irrigation associations, irrigation performance assessment, use of water, water resources

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