A guideline for sustainable irrigation water management: a case of a developing country

IF 2.1 Q2 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY Intelligent Buildings International Pub Date : 2020-08-27 DOI:10.1080/17508975.2020.1809982
D. Sirimewan, A. Samaraweera, N. Manjula, E. Ekanayake
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ABSTRACT Irrigation Water Management (IWM) being considered essential as it contributes to crop production all over the world. Nonetheless, water losses throughout the system, inefficient irrigation practices and lack of attention towards the proper maintenance of existing infrastructure were the constraining factors to achieve the benefits of sustainable use of water. Hence, this paper develops strategies to achieve sustainable water management of irrigation systems. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted for industry professionals in the IWM sector in Sri Lanka as the main data collection method in this study. The collected data were analysed using a code-based content analysis based on the directed approach. The research findings identified four main categories of strategies, namely, engineering, management, operational and regulatory. The findings are substantially beneficial for industry practitioners in the water management sector to overcome the issues in IWM practices regarding the water use efficiency, equity of water distribution, environmental integrity and economic acceptability. This study can be further extended to prioritise the issues and strategies to statistically generalise the findings.
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可持续灌溉水管理准则:以发展中国家为例
摘要灌溉水管理(IWM)被认为是至关重要的,因为它有助于世界各地的作物生产。尽管如此,整个系统的水损失、低效的灌溉做法以及对现有基础设施的适当维护缺乏关注,都是实现可持续用水效益的制约因素。因此,本文提出了实现灌溉系统可持续用水管理的策略。作为本研究的主要数据收集方法,对斯里兰卡IWM行业的行业专业人士进行了16次半结构化访谈。使用基于直接方法的基于代码的内容分析对收集的数据进行了分析。研究结果确定了四大类战略,即工程、管理、运营和监管。这些发现对水管理部门的行业从业者来说非常有益,有助于克服IWM实践中有关用水效率、水分配公平性、环境完整性和经济可接受性的问题。这项研究可以进一步扩展,以优先考虑问题和策略,从而在统计上概括研究结果。
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