Evaluation of the Water Allocation and Delivery Performance of Jiamakou Irrigation Scheme, Shanxi, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Description of JMIS
2.2. Crop Evapotranspiration and Irrigation Water Requirement
2.3. Scheduled Water and Delivered Water
2.4. Determination of Performance Indicators
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Performance of Water Allocation and Water Delivery
3.2. Overall Performance of the Irrigation Scheme
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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No. | Secondary Canal Name | Distance from Pump Station (m) | Irrigated Area (ha) | Total Length of Canal (m) | Cropping Pattern (Apple: Cotton) |
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C 1 | Puli | 2664 | 1139 | 11,117 | 0.32:0.68 |
C 2 | Secondary canal 1 | 5267 | 2235 | 26,274 | 0.55:0.45 |
C 3 | Secondary canal 3 | 13,093 | 595 | 4693 | 0.85: 0.15 |
C 4 | Secondary canal 4 | 16,655 | 1729 | 21,600 | 0.55:0.45 |
C 5 | Secondary canal 5 | 20,569 | 989 | 10,800 | 0.67:0.33 |
C 6 | Secondary canal 6 | 21,274 | 209 | 2788 | 0.74:0.26 |
C 7 | Secondary canal 7 | 24,252 | 229 | 3928 | 0.79:0.21 |
C 8 | Secondary canal 8 | 29,300 | 665 | 9200 | 0.24:0.76 |
C 9 | Secondary canal 9 | 30,100 | 754 | 1400 | 0.74:0.26 |
C 10 | Secondary canal 10 | 35,062 | 980 | 19,488 | 0.57:0.43 |
C 11 | Secondary canal 11 | 36,321 | 995 | 28,500 | 0.68:0.32 |
Total | - | - | 10,517 | - | - |
Year | Month | (mm) | (104 m3) | (104 m3) | (104 m3) |
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2012 | Total | 329 | 3923 | 4314 | 4265 |
January | 0 | 53 | 0 | 0 | |
February | 0 | 101 | 91 | 85 | |
March | 14 | 51 | 627 | 598 | |
April | 9 | 256 | 648 | 651 | |
May | 32 | 315 | 850 | 889 | |
June | 12 | 1679 | 1173 | 1180 | |
July | 131 | 134 | 181 | 157 | |
August | 43 | 1197 | 534 | 497 | |
September | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
October | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
November | 7 | 45 | 202 | 199 | |
December | 0 | 93 | 9 | 9 | |
2014 | Total | 557 | 2110 | 3578 | 3636 |
January | 0 | 123 | 0 | 0 | |
February | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
March | 0 | 221 | 791 | 785 | |
April | 73 | 0 | 109 | 115 | |
May | 57 | 0 | 160 | 167 | |
June | 90 | 136 | 965 | 1009 | |
July | 57 | 1285 | 945 | 898 | |
August | 85 | 327 | 176 | 229 | |
September | 174 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
October | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
November | 11 | 0 | 401 | 392 | |
December | 0 | 0 | 31 | 42 | |
2015 | Total | 481 | 2832 | 3421 | 3310 |
January | 0 | 92 | 0 | 0 | |
February | 0 | 151 | 0 | 0 | |
March | 24 | 0 | 756 | 757 | |
April | 52 | 0 | 19 | 17 | |
May | 52 | 0 | 645 | 647 | |
June | 87 | 88 | 677 | 731 | |
July | 47 | 1112 | 744 | 511 | |
August | 26 | 1389 | 535 | 582 | |
September | 84 | 0 | 45 | 65 | |
October | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
November | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
December | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Measure | Performance Classes | ||
---|---|---|---|
Good | Fair | Poor | |
0.90 ≤ ≤1.00 | 0.80 ≤ < 0.9 | < 0.8 | |
0.85 ≤ ≤ 1.00 | 0.70 ≤ < 0.85 | < 0.70 | |
0 ≤ ≤ 0.10 | 0.10 < ≤ 0.25 | > 0.25 | |
0 ≤ ≤ 0.10 | 0.10 < ≤ 0.20 | > 0.2 |
Objective | Indicator | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | Average | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adequacy | Overall performance | 0.61 | 0.73 | 0.65 | 0.66 | |
Water allocation | 0.62 | 0.71 | 0.66 | 0.66 | ||
Water delivery | 0.93 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.95 | ||
Efficiency | Overall performance | 0.77 | 0.47 | 0.49 | 0.58 | |
Water allocation | 0.71 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 0.56 | ||
Water delivery | 0.97 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.92 | ||
Dependability | Overall performance | 1.48 | 1.26 | 1.64 | 1.46 | |
Water allocation | 1.52 | 1.25 | 1.56 | 1.44 | ||
Water delivery | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 0.23 | ||
Equity | Overall performance | 0.69 | 0.17 | 0.12 | 0.32 | |
Water allocation | 0.69 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.33 | ||
Water delivery | 0.17 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.16 |
Categories | Country | Year | Crop | Adequacy | Efficiency | Dependability | Equity |
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Unal et al. [13] | Turkey | 1999 | Cotton and vegetable | 0.93 | 0.83 | 0.81 | 0.67 |
Vandersypen et al. [14] | Mali | 2004 | paddy rice | 0.91 | 0.59 | 0.71 | 0.54 |
Aly et al. [15] | Egypt | 2003 | Paddy rice, cotton and maize | 0.66 | - | 0.26 | 0.18 |
Nam et al. [20] | South Korea | 2013 | paddy rice | 0.87 | 0.86 | 0.21 | 0.22 |
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Fan, Y.; Gao, Z.; Wang, S.; Chen, H.; Liu, J. Evaluation of the Water Allocation and Delivery Performance of Jiamakou Irrigation Scheme, Shanxi, China. Water 2018, 10, 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10050654
Fan Y, Gao Z, Wang S, Chen H, Liu J. Evaluation of the Water Allocation and Delivery Performance of Jiamakou Irrigation Scheme, Shanxi, China. Water. 2018; 10(5):654. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10050654
Chicago/Turabian StyleFan, Yumiao, Zhanyi Gao, Shaoli Wang, Haorui Chen, and Jing Liu. 2018. "Evaluation of the Water Allocation and Delivery Performance of Jiamakou Irrigation Scheme, Shanxi, China" Water 10, no. 5: 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10050654
APA StyleFan, Y., Gao, Z., Wang, S., Chen, H., & Liu, J. (2018). Evaluation of the Water Allocation and Delivery Performance of Jiamakou Irrigation Scheme, Shanxi, China. Water, 10(5), 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10050654