Flow Chart Of Use Of Groundwater In Agriculture
However to maintain and extend these achievements and to prevent groundwater depletion or degradation greater knowledge of groundwater resources as well as policy and management options are required.
Flow chart of use of groundwater in agriculture. In semi arid and arid regions high water withdrawals are required by the agricultural sector as it. Mean monthly average rainfall in limpopo province 1972 2014. On the use of groundwater for agriculture in sri lanka 30 september 2002 peradeniya sri lanka. In humid regions groundwater recharge is likely to exceed groundwater withdrawals such that groundwater discharge contributes significantly to river flows the base flow component.
Groundwater plays a vital role in the development of arid and semiarid zones sometimes supporting agricultural and industrial enterprises that could not otherwise exist. Groundwater is a secure source of supply and has always been used by most of the economic activities particularly for urban supply and industrial use. Thus the study assessed groundwater use for irrigated agriculture from may to september. Agricultural policies traditionally directed towards other objectives are beginning to pay more attention to environmental considerations.
Agriculture is an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstractions but also in terms of generation and release of pollutants. As farmers invest in individual water supply groundwater becomes a preferred resource option. Download high res image 141kb download. All fields that were identified as irrigated during the winter of 2015 were considered irrigated from groundwater.
2 agencies have started to promote the use of agro wells through subsidy. Aquifers studiescollection andinterpretation of datadevelopment of aquifermodelapplication of aquifermodel as amanagement tool slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance and to provide you with relevant advertising. Figure 7 9 porosity how groundwater occurs in geologic materials 7 8 figure 7 10 karst topography 7 14 figure 7 11 permeability of various geologic materials 7 17 figure 7a 1 determining direction of groundwater flow and hydraulic 7a 2 gradient figure 7b 1 flow chart for identifying coarse grained soils 7b 5. Groundwater water that occurs below the surface of earth where it occupies all or part of the void spaces in soils or geologic strata.