Irrigation and drainage system management

Author: (Australia) Malano
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The content of this book is primarily based on the author's teaching and research achievements. For years, the author has been imparting the book's content to middle and senior managers, as well as postgraduate students from the University of Melbourne in Australia and the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering in the Netherlands. Chapter 1 introduces the historical role of irrigation and drainage in global food and fiber production and the challenges facing this field in the future. It provides fundamental principles for why it is urgently necessary to improve irrigation and drainage systems to fully realize the potential of irrigation agriculture and how to sustainably increase agricultural production. Chapter 2 focuses on the external management environment of irrigation and drainage organizations. It emphasizes the characteristics of water as a public resource and highlights the basic principles of integrated resource management; it also offers insights into handling different interests and sometimes conflicting conflicts between governments, irrigation and drainage organizations, and users. Chapter 3 focuses on the management procedures of irrigation and drainage organizations. It introduces the basic principles of management and strategic planning and their roles in service-oriented irrigation and drainage. Chapter 4 elaborates on the basic theories and essential elements of irrigation and drainage services. It discusses the key factors and considerations that must be taken into account in the formation of service standards, as well as the different types of accountability standards and the operational mechanisms required to ensure service direction. Chapter 5 explains the important relationship between service levels, the necessary management inputs for hydraulic control, and service standards. Various types of flow control concepts and their associated operational requirements are discussed. This chapter provides a foundation for establishing the connection between service standards and service costs. Chapter 6 provides a foundation for the sustainable management of irrigation and drainage facilities. This approach aims to provide a set of methods for irrigation and drainage organizations to determine actual irrigation costs, and it also discusses in detail the methods and frameworks for property management. Chapter 7 discusses the evaluation of irrigation systems as a closely linked management framework. Through the evaluation of organizational management linked to services, it provides a comprehensive review of the internal and external implementation of management organizations. Chapter 8 summarizes the potential and opportunities for development, introducing the challenges faced by many irrigation systems as a collective reflection. This chapter emphasizes that service-oriented management cannot be viewed in isolation but should be seen in the broader context of water resource utilization and management. The format of the material presented in this book includes tables, figures, and flowcharts. Tables and figures are used to assist in explaining concepts and principles, while flowcharts are primarily used to provide examples of the structure of actual irrigation and drainage systems and to illustrate key principles.