Value Engineering Approach to Evaluate the Agricultural Drainage Water Management Strategies

Excessive irrigating water that has not been adequately drained may cause more to enter the crop root zone than is necessary. As a result, issues with increasing table levels, waterlogging, and salinity get worse productivity losses. Agricultural drainage management strategies (ADWMS) can be used protect quality of groundwater, guarantee crops have better moisture conditions, provide irrigation by reusing agricultural using sub-irrigation practices. In order decrease effects poor drainage, mitigate climate change, conserve environment, achieve food security, this study proposes framework for choosing most effective ADWMS in Egypt’s Nile Delta as well new lands. The value engineering approach ensure strategy’s functionality present some innovation process developing alternative solutions are financially evaluated life cycle cost technique. According results, strategy (ADWMS-3) prioritizes improving effectiveness, controlling groundwater rise, providing another source while maintaining environmental protection. This encompasses use control system, timing fertilizer application, regulating variation, ADWMS-3 achieves highest values technical score 8.06 index 18.59. advances understanding topic policymakers tool (i) evaluate (ii) incorporate added into their policies regarding water.