Governing closing basins: the case of the Gediz River in Turkey.

Svendsen, Mark; Murray-Rust, Dave; Harmancioğlu, Nilgun B.; Alpaslan, N.

doi:10.1079/9780851996721.0193

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“…The water is delivered to the Lower Gediz Irrigation System by means of three regulators constructed on the river: from upstream to downstream, Adala, Ahmetli and Emiralem. For the past decade, there has been a scarcity of water in the Lower Gediz Basin because of the increase in urban and industrial demand (Svendsen et al 2001). This situation increases competition for water between the sectors.…”

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Multi-Objective Planning Model for Large Scale Irrigation Systems: Method and Application

Kiliç

Anaç

2010

Water Resour Manage

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An increase in demand, and droughts in recent years have resulted in the need for tools to allocate limited water between users in different regions in order to achieve economic, social and environmental benefits. Multi-objective planning is an important decision support tool for natural resource management. Planners, decision makers and stakeholders use this approach in the decision-making process. In this research, a multi-objective planning model was developed and applied on the Menemen Left Bank Irrigation System of the Lower Gediz Basin in Turkey. The aims of the model were to increase the benefit from production, to increase the size of the total area irrigated, and to reduce the water losses occurring at network level. The model was applied to an open channel system consisting of 44 tertiary channels receiving water from three secondaries, serving an area of 3,606 ha. The model predicted a 20.63% increase in income, and a 29.26% decrease in the total irrigation water requirements of crops dependent on projected changes in the actual crop pattern of the research area. This decrease caused a reduction of 29.90% in expected water losses over the network as a whole. The operation of the model enabled optimum productivity and income at the system level per unit of land and water resources.

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Section: Description Of the Irrigation Areamentioning

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Multi-Objective Planning Model for Large Scale Irrigation Systems: Method and Application

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2010

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“…In practice, this means that there is no reserve for further water allocation in Gediz. Thus, water allocation is a major problem, which has to be optimized among various competing water uses under environmental as well as institutional, legal, social and economic constraints (Svendsen et al 2005).…”

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Optimization methods applied for sustainable management of water-scarce basins

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Fıstıkoğlu

Harmancioğlu

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Journal of Hydroinformatics

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This paper aims to present the information-based technologies used for water management in a test basin within the scope of the EU-sponsored SMART and OPTIMA projects. The study uses a dynamic simulation model with its associated databases and a water resources planning and optimization system, established through a web-based client-server implementation to support distributed use and easy access for multi-criteria optimization and decision support. The results clearly illustrate how a consistent and well-integrated set of advanced but practical Decision Support System (DSS) tools can be used for efficient "optimal" water management strategies and policies of use, designed for a participatory public decision-making process.

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“…This differs from standard hydrological definitions where the term 'closed river basin' is applied to an endorheic basin that terminates in an internal (inland) sea, lake or other sink and does not flow into an ocean (Wester et al, 2001, p. 161). The concept of river basin closure (Svendsen et al, 2001) as a constraint to river basin management has been discussed in the literature for slightly more than a decade and is thus still relatively new (Seckler, 1996).…”

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Basin Closure and Issues of Scale: The Southern African Hydropolitical Complex

Turton

Ashton

2008

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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Southern African countries face serious regional water scarcity constraints to economic growth and development. The water resources in the four most economically diverse countries-South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe-are approaching closure at the national level. Investigations using the concept of a Hydropolitical Complex, rather than the river basin alone, as the unit of analysis have produced a more subtle understanding of how hydrologically-constrained states are dealing with the problem. The Southern African Hydropolitical Complex (SAHPC) case suggests that where states have water constraints to future economic development options, then the incentives to seek consensual management options are high.

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Governing closing basins: the case of the Gediz River in Turkey.

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Cited by 14 publications

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Multi-Objective Planning Model for Large Scale Irrigation Systems: Method and Application

Multi-Objective Planning Model for Large Scale Irrigation Systems: Method and Application

Optimization methods applied for sustainable management of water-scarce basins

Basin Closure and Issues of Scale: The Southern African Hydropolitical Complex

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