the greatest limitations to agricultural development and production in iran are scarcity of water resources, ineffective irrigation scheduling and wasteful water usage. avenues discussed for optimum water use include improving water productivity by improving irrigation scheduling, farm water management and water profitability. the present study evaluated current water use and ways to improve wi...

In past decades, traditional stormwater management in urban and rural areas was associated with a rapid transfer of water to sewage systems or ditches, which resulted pollutants large volumes being carried rivers streams [...]

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the purpose of this paper was to determine the factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction from water users associations (wuas) in the harran plain-turkey. the data used in this study come from a sample of 378 farmers among 23,204 in the şanlıurfa-harran plain. they were chosen via simple random sampling method and interviewed face to face. sampling was conducted in 52% of the settlements. to analy...

reliable estimates of river stream fl ow and fl ood zoning maps are needed for water resourcesmanagement such as fl ood mitigation, water supply, dam construction and irrigation. flood zoning needsaccurate data and is one of the non-structural fl ood management methods. this paper describes theapplication of hec-ras and gis model to determine fl oodplains maps for the part of sardabrud rivertha...

the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of management information system on employees’ performance of tehran province water and wastewater company in district 5. the present study was an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive correlational survey in terms of method. cochran's formula was used to determine sample size which was 219 employees. the statistical samp...

Effective risk assessment and risk management approaches in public drinking water systems can benefit from a systematic process for hazards identification and effective management control based on the Water Safety Plan (WSP) concept. Good results from WSP development and implementation in a small number of Portuguese water utilities have shown that a more ambitious nationwide strategic approach...

Confronted by the population mushroomed and the increasing shortage of water around the world today, water-saving irrigation and intensive cultivation are inevitable and viable. In this paper, the auto water-saving irrigation based on wireless sensors networks and multi-source information fusion technology based on entropy is introduced. Using wireless sensors networks which adopts nRF2401 as t...

maharlou-bakhtegan catchment in the southern part of iran is faced with water scarcity.this problem is exacerbated by environmental degradation, climate change effects, mismanagementof water resources, along with a major dependence of water demand supplies on the limitedgroundwater resources. in this study, a combined approach of dpsir model along with the scenarioanalysis was employed to deriv...