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Design of Water Quality Monitoring Networks - June 7 - 11, 2004
Courses Available On Request
On-Farm
Irrigation Systems Design and Management Available
on Request
(Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on principles of irrigation systems and
management structures, physical properties of soils as they affect system design
and management, irrigation flow measurement and water control systems,
principles of surface and sprinkler irrigation system design, land leveling,
crop water requirements, irrigation scheduling, soil salinity control and
drainage, system performance and evaluation procedures, and local visits to
various irrigation systems and to discuss their operation and performance with
system operators and managers. Exercises will include the use of personal computers to
facilitate system design and analysis.
Design
and Management of Sprinkler and Trickle Irrigation Systems
(Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on principles of sprinkler and trickle
irrigation systems, irrigation flow measurement and water control systems,
system performance and evaluation procedures, and system automation and local
visits to various sprinkler and trickle irrigation systems and to discuss their
operation and performance with system operators and managers.
Exercises will include the use of personal computers to facilitate system
design and analysis.
Drainage
and Salinity Control on Irrigated Lands (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
Over-application of water in arid
irrigated areas is a serious problem in many parts of the world, leading to
waterlogging, salinity problems and loss of production.
The purpose of the course is to provide an understanding of the soil and
water engineering principles which are necessary for
the successful implementation of drainage for salinity control in
irrigated areas.
Subjects covered include drainage principles and theories, impacts of
irrigation practices and their modification, effects of waterlogging and
salinity on crop production, drainage design, evaluation and management.
Performance
and Evaluation of Irrigation Systems (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on principles of irrigation system
performance and evaluation as they affect system design and management, water
control systems, irrigation management and local visits to various irrigation
systems and to discuss their operation and performance with system operators and
managers.
Exercises will include the use of personal computers to facilitate
irrigation system performance evaluation.
Irrigation
Management Study Tour (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
Study tours will be organized to visit irrigation
projects, major irrigation water storage and control facilities, salinity
control and reclamation projects, public and private irrigation management
offices, research and development institutions, and upstream and downstream
water level control systems. The
tour director will be selected based on training and experience in the subject
area and will provide technical expertise and guidance throughout the tour.
Modeling,
Regulation and Monitoring of Irrigation-Water-Delivery Systems (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course covers hydraulic
principles of irrigation-water-delivery systems; design and management
objectives, performance assessment and constraints of water-delivery systems;
computational modeling of flow in canal networks.
The course includes a field trip to the U.S. Water Conservation
Laboratory, the Central Arizona Project, and the Imperial Irrigation District in
California to study field installations of canal control structures and flow
measurements.
Design
and Management of Surface Irrigation Systems (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on principles of surface
irrigation systems and management structures, irrigation flow measurement and
water control systems, land leveling, system performance and evaluation
procedures, system automation and local visits to various surface irrigation
systems and to discuss their operation and performance with system operators and
managers. Exercises will include
the use of personal computers to facilitate system design and analysis.
Rehabilitation
of Irrigation Systems
(Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on data requirements, methods of
analysis, feasibility report preparation and post-implement evaluation required
to achieve efficient use of resources. The
course includes the role of system rehabilitation and modernization in
sustaining agricultural production and the identification of irrigation hardware
and software appropriate to the economic and cultural conditions.
The selection and evaluation of methods for assessing economic impacts of
rehabilitation is illustrated using case studies.
Design
and Management of Local Irrigation Organizations (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The
course focuses on concepts and procedures for analyzing the
social-organizational aspects of creating new local organizations or for
improving existing organization to obtain effective local water control to
enhance production of food and fiber, to encourage farmer involvement in
operation and management of local irrigation facilities, to mobilize local
resources such as irrigation assessments, fees and taxes, and to develop
linkages between central project managers and local farmers.
Water
Users Associations (WUA) in Irrigation Management (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on the financial
management and water delivery record keeping for WUAs, water fees structures for
WUAs and other types of water utilities, WUA staffing and manpower requirements,
designing WUA business practices to meet the hydraulic conditions of an
irrigation system, managing delinquent accounts, financial monitoring of WUAs,
legal and institutional requirements for WUAs, government financial assistance
and credit programs for WUAs, technical support requirements for WUAs, WUAs and
the environment, and review of management transfer programs in selected
countries.
Automation
of Irrigation Canals
(Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course focuses on problems with existing water
delivery schedules, prerequisites
for improved performance of irrigation canals and the need for automation,
real-time estimation of crop water requirements, flow measurement structures,
upstream and downstream control operational concepts and methods, automation
equipment, local control using hydromechanical and electro-mechanical devices, feedback, constant-volume and
constant-level control, data transmission equipment, advantages and
disadvantages of gate stroking algorithm for scheduled deliveries, real-time
feedback control for demand deliveries, hybrid control algorithm and dynamic
regulation. Course will include field trips to Salt River Project and Central
Arizona Project.
Communication
in Irrigation Management (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course introduces participants to the basic principles
of communication, the underlying models of the communication process, methods of
audience analysis and inclusion, campaign strategies including the development
of measurable outcomes, and the
role of technology in message dissemination.
Participants--depending on how the course is customized--will learn
through developing their own specific communication strategies or campaign.
They also will be exposed to a broad range of communication tools
including video and multi-media, and visit a major communication program in
irrigation, for example, the Salt River Project, Arizona.
Planning
and Management of River Systems for Irrigation (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
The course introduces participants to design and
implementation of computerized decision support systems for management of river
basin water resources including management concepts, hydrologic analysis,
planning and operational objectives.
The course will also include optimal planning of large river basin
irrigation projects subject to multiple evaluation criteria.
Case studies will be used.
Hands-on experience using models for simulation and optimization,
spreadsheets, and computational models including geographic information systems.
Field trips could include tours of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
facilities and the irrigation-delivery facilities of the Colorado-Big Thompson
project.
Control
of Irrigation Water for Water Users Associations (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice).
In any social effort such as irrigation, there is an
underlying requirement for organization which includes the use of appropriate
engineering designs to support the organizational rules and procedures.
The role of appropriate water control designs becomes increasingly
important in participatory irrigation management where a vital public resource
(water) is jointly managed by government agencies and water users associations. Participatory irrigation management challenges professionals
to design water control facilities to meet both agency and farmer requirements
and aptitudes.
Strategies
and Issues in Developing Financially Sustainable Irrigation Systems (Negotiable
with at least 90 days advance notice). The merits of alternative programs for developing
financially sustainable irrigation systems will be compared from the
perspectives of finance, irrigation efficiency, and evolution of irrigation
institutions that can better meet future needs.
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