Small Reservoirs in Northern Ghana: Monitoring, Physical Processes, and Management

The importance of small reservoirs for the livelihoods of people in the Upper East Region of Ghana cannot be over-emphasized. They are used for many purposes which include fishing, livestock watering, construction, irrigation, recreation, drinking water, and other domestic uses. The reservoirs were built most often close to communities to...

Removal of bacterial plant pathogens in columns filled with quartz and natural sediments under anoxic and oxygenated conditions

Irrigation with surface water carrying plant pathogens poses a risk for agriculture. Managed aquifer recharge enhances fresh water availability while simultaneously it may reduce the risk of plant diseases by removal of pathogens during aquifer passage. We compared the transport of three plant pathogenic bacteria with Escherichia coli WR1 as...

Renewable Energy for Smallholder Irrigation: A Technology Adoption Toolkit

Smallholders are the backbone of livelihoods in the Global South. Yet, many remain water- and energy-insecure. For this challenge, this study presents a toolkit to stimulate the sustained adoption of renewable energy-powered water pumps for smallholder irrigation. A human-centered design method was used to co-create it. It first consisted of a...

Mapping of farmer-led irrigated agriculture with remote sensing: A case study in Central Mozambique

In Manica Province in Central Mozambique, agricultural activities consist for a significant part of farmer-led irrigated agriculture. These farmers construct and maintain their own irrigation systems with local inputs and have a commercial intent. Organization is often individual and farmers receive zero to minimal external support from donors,...

Mapping irrigated areas and water consumption in Crete

Policies lost in translation? Unravelling water reform processes in African waterscapes

Since the 1980s a major change took place in public policies for water resources management. The role of governments shifted under this reform process from an emphasis on investment in the development, operation and maintenance of water infrastructure to a focus on managing water resources systems by stipulating general frameworks and defining...

A novel approach to estimate direct and indirect water withdrawals from satellite measurements: A case study from the Incomati basin

The Incomati basin encompasses parts of South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique, and is a water stressed basin. Equitable allocation of water is crucial to sustain livelihoods and agro-ecosystems, and to sustain international agreements. As compliance monitoring of water distribution by flow meters is laborious, expensive and only partially...

Mapping variability of soil water content and flux across 1–1000 m scales using the Actively Heated Fiber Optic method

The Actively Heated Fiber Optic (AHFO) method is shown to be capable of measuring soil water content several times per hour at 0.25 m spacing along cables of multiple kilometers in length. AHFO is based on distributed temperature sensing (DTS) observation of the heating and cooling of a buried fiber-optic cable resulting from an electrical...

The last will be first: Water transfers from agriculture to cities in the Pangani river basin, Tanzania

Water transfers to growing cities in sub-Sahara Africa, as elsewhere, seem inevitable. But absolute water entitlements in basins with variable supply may seriously affect many water users in times of water scarcity. This paper is based on research conducted in the Pangani river basin, Tanzania. Using a framework drawing from a theory of water...

Water Law and Organization (Dutch version)

Lecture notes in DUTCH for course CIE5500, providing a detailed overview of Dutch and European water law concerning surface and groundwater, the North Sea and the Wadden Sea, water services, flood protection, spatial planning, nature protection, water management organizations (e.g. the water boards), financing and legal protection....

Model predictive control on open water systems

Human life depends on water daily, especially for drinking and food production. Also, human life needs to be protected against excess of water caused by heavy precipitation and floods. People have formed water management organizations to guarantee these necessities of life for communities. These organizations manage a water system within the...

Gewaswaarden, beregeningskosten en areaalverdeling in het jaar 2000

Manuscripten van H.J. Schoemaker uit de periode 1946-1971: Deel F: Watervoorziening in de irrigatie

F1: Duurlijnen (1967) F2: Retentie in stuwmeren (1967) F3: Verbruikslijn voor rijstteeld (1971) F4: Capaciteitslijnen voor irrigatieleidingen (1971)