Название практики | Application of tubular outlet flowmeters | Holding the Integrated Water Resources Management Olympiad (Academic Competition) |
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Category | Water resources | Water resources |
Tool | Means and methods of water accounting | |
Field of application | Use of water resources |
Use of water resources |
Usability of practice for adaptation to climate change | Moderate | Low |
Implemented by | Institute of Water Issues, Hydropower and Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan (IWIHE of the AS of the RTj) |
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (KRSU) |
Used by |
Country: Tajikistan Province: Khatlon Region District: Jilikul |
Country: Kyrgyzstan |
Local specifics |
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Practice usage period |
Start date: 01.04.2010 End date: 31.10.2011 |
Start date: 01.02.2017 End date: 31.12.2017 |
Problem solved through this practice | Uneven distribution of irrigation water, lack of water accounting means to ensure observance of recommended irrigation norms for cotton |
Insufficient level of objectivity while selecting candidates, i.e. selection of final candidates not based on their knowledge and skills but illicitly |
Tools used in the practice | Tubular water outlet flowmeter |
Technique of knowledge assessment |
Description of the practice and its results | Actions: - Construction of tubular water outlet flowmeter with removable nozzles (procurement of polyethylene piping to make tubular water outlets and matching nozzles); Results: Financial and economic: saving of irrigation water; low cost of irrigation system automation (total kit cost: $500/ha) with the service life of 5 years. Technical: simple design allowing a more even distribution of irrigation water stream among furrows, thus, ensuring the prescribed water supply mode. Social: improved working conditions of irrigators; lower labor needs/costs; enhanced mutual trust among farmers and water users. |
Actions: The participants were offered to undergo 2 exams (written and oral) within the framework of the Olympiad. Finalists of the written test could go on to the oral exam. Results: 1 student was selected from among the candidates to participate in subsequent Regional IWRM Olympiad and the International Summer School “Methods and Means of Assessing, Modelling and Monitoring the Water and Land Resources of Central Asia” to take place in Almaty City. |
Lessons learnt and recommendations made | Lessons learnt: Installation and deployment of tubular water outlet flowmeter allows to improve the uniformity of irrigation stream’s distribution among furrows and conduct irrigation water accounting. Recommendations: It is necessary to widely use the small-scale irrigation automation means like the tubular water outlet flowmeters which have simple design, are convenient to operate, are low-cost and mobile and ensure supply of the prescribed amount of irrigation water. |
Formally, this competitive practice is routine while selecting the personnel/specialists for international and national projects, but their unbiased selection is not achieved in all cases. Quite often, various types of project participants are selected by way of “pulling strings” or based on the instruction of upper-tier agencies. |
Source of practice | Domestic tools (outcomes of research by domestic R&D organizations) |
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Readiness for implementation |
1. Cost of implementation: High 2. Approximate cost of investment per 1 ha: 3. O&M costs: High 4. Expert support: Not needed |
1. Cost of implementation: High 2. Approximate cost of investment per 1 ha: 3. O&M costs: High 4. Expert support: Not needed |
Brief information on the project | Project title: Watering technology based on tubular water outlet flowmeters. Project duration: Apr 2010-Oct 2011. Project goal and objectives: development and deployment of a crop watering technology for dekhan farms of the Republic of Tajikistan allowing to significantly increase the efficiency of water use. Project beneficiaries: members of “Istikol” WUA (Water User Association). Project implementer: Institute of Water Issues, Hydropower and Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of the RTj |
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Funding source | “Tajikistan Water Partnership” NGO | Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Repub-lic, Global Water Partnership (GWP) in Kyrgyzstan |
Information sources | Report by the Innovation Technology Department of the IWIHE of the AS of the RTj, Dushanbe, 2012, 45 p. |
http://www.water.kg/index.php/ru/itemlist/category/93-seminary-i-treningi |
Contacts of a person, who filled this form | SIC ICWC |
SIC ICWC |
Form submission date | 02.04.2018 | 30.03.2018 |