- Eurasian Journal of Agricultural Research
- Vol: 1 Issue: 1
- The Performance Assessment in Irrigation Systems: The Case of Turkey
The Performance Assessment in Irrigation Systems: The Case of Turkey
Authors : Mehmet Akif Kalender, Ramazan Topak
Pages : 30-36
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Publication Date : 2017-08-30
Article Type : Review
Abstract :Water is an essential resource for human’s live maintaining. Alongside it supplies people with daily needs, water is used for the purpose of agriculture, energy production, industry and tourism. The increase of population and industrialisation have caused both rise of present water consumption and contamination of present water resources. For this reason, water is among the resources should be used efficiently in the world. Water used in agriculture is considerably more than the other sectors use. Comparing with the developed and European countries, water percentage used in agriculture in Turkey is much more. It is known that water resources decreased and would decrease even more due to population increase, climate changes and unconscious uses. It is known that due to population increase, climate changes and unconscious uses, water resources decreased and will decrease even more. While Turkey is not among the countries suffered from water shortages, present water resources should be carefully used due to rapid population growth, pollution and the average annual precipitation lower than the world average and should be immediately taken the necessary precautions against contamination. Therefore, especially in agriculture, water must be used economical, conscious and in a planned way. Regarding this issue, one of the applications should be performed is performance assessments of irrigation. Studies about performance assessments of irrigation are carried out by the Irrigation Association to determine and take necessary measures the inabilities and problems on irrigation by evaluating of the present water potential in any area. In this review, performance assessments of irrigation studies carried out by Irrigation Associations were summarised.Keywords : Assessment criteria, irrigation, irrigation associations, irrigation performance assessment, use of water, water resources