Water Delivery Performance in the Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation and Drainage District

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• 作者：E. Bautista ; J.A. Repogle ; A.J. Clemmens ; W. Clyma ; A.R. Dedrick and S.A. Rish
• 关键词：agricultural system ; delivery system ; management ; performance assessment
• 刊名：Irrigation and Drainage Systems
• 出版年：2000
• 出版时间：2000
• 年：2000
• 卷：14
• 期：1/2
• 页码：139-166
• 全文大小：103 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Agriculture
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0654

文摘

A Diagnostic Analysis was conducted in the service area of theMaricopa-Stanfield Irrigation and Drainage District in Arizona,USA. The study was an initial step in a managed change process,named Management Improvement Program (MIP), aimed at improvingthe performance of the area's irrigated agricultural system. Partof the Diagnostic Analysis study focused on the performance ofthe irrigation district's water delivery service. The studyidentified areas of high and low water delivery performance,factors contributing to the observed levels of performance, andimplications to on-farm water management. These findings promptedchanges in the delivery system's management. Results from a post-MIP intervention study indicate that the district's waterdelivery performance has improved as a result of those changes,and thus, that the Diagnostic Analysis and MIP methodologies areeffective tools for promoting positive change in a water deliveryorganization.