How design, management, and policy affect the performance of irrigation projects : emerging modernization procedures and design standards
How design, management, and policy affect the performance of irrigation projects : emerging modernization procedures and design standards
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设计、管理和政策如何影响灌溉项目的绩效:新兴的现代化程序和设计标准
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2002
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H. Plusquellec
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S FROM THE FAO GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE INVESTMENT PROJECTS This annex reproduces the sections from the FAO Investment Centre Technical Paper No 11 which are dealing with water management and operation of irrigation and drainage systems. Part I: Recent lessons and implications for planning Choice of technology (page 29) Commonsense dictates that the choice of a technology for irrigation should be based on its appropriateness for the cropping patterns intended and should also consider cost-effectiveness. In the past, irrigation engineers have tended to overlook an additional need: for the technology also to be matched to the level of sophistication of the operational capacity of the users. It has become increasingly obvious that the design process must start from a consideration of how the users will operate the system; this should be then designed to provide the optimum combination of efficiency in water use and cost-effective operation and maintenance. Equally important, the designer must consider how the users will cultivate their land and the implications that this may have for scheme layout. Thus it may be that the design which involves the lowest investment cost per hectare may not be the most cost-effective solution if it also involves a large number of staffers for its operation or if, because of operational difficulty, it cannot be used to capacity. On the other hand, a design of modern water control structures may not result in overall efficiency gains if the users reject the modern control in favour of their traditional proportional dividers. The choice of technology, whether for new development or for the rehabilitation of existing schemas, has been the subject of much debate over the years. While most irrigation engineers would now agree that the starting point for design must be ease of operation, they still tend to polarize into two camps. One sees the problem largely as overcoming the hydraulic instability of extensively gated manually operated systems; it sees the solution as the modernization of these systems, adding automatic downstream control structures and other feedback mechanisms designed to achieve hydraulic stability. The other accepts the reality of farmers’ damage in wet-season drought and so favours designs based on cruder and more robust structure; the possibility of just-on-time, demand-based