SPIS Toolbox - Safeguard Water - Further Readings
Introduction
The Toolbox on Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) is designed to enable advisors, service providers and practitioners in the field of solar irrigation to provide broad hands-on guidance to end-users, policy-makers and financiers. Risks related to system efficiency, financial viability and the unsustainable use of water resources can thus be minimized. The Toolbox comprises informative modules supplemented with user-friendly software tools (calculations sheets, checklists, guidelines). read more
Modules and tools touch upon:
- assessing the water requirements,
- comparing the financial viability,
- determining farm profitability and payback of investment in SPIS,
- sustainably design and maintain a SPIS,
- highlight critical workmanship quality aspects,
- and many more.
Further Readings, Links and Tools
Further Reading
“Groundwater Governance and IrrigatedAgriculture” by Tushaar Shah, Global Water Partnership (GWP) Technical Committee (TEC), Stockholm, Sweden (2014)
“Groundwater Utilization and Sustainability” by Victor M. Ponce, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States of America (2006, 2013)
“Solar Powered Irrigation Systems - Stocktaking and Analysis Report” by German Technical CooperationAgency (GIZ), Eschborn, Germany (2015)
“Sustainable Managementof Water Resourcesin Agriculture” by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France (2010)
“Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management, and Policy” by Thomas V, Cech, United States of America, 2010
“Profit from Storage. The costs and benefits of water buffering.” by A. Tuinhof, F. van Steenbergen, P. Vos, L. Tolk, Wageningen, The Netherlands (2012)
Websites
AQTESOLV Aquifer Test Analysis Software http://www.aqtesolv.com/pumping-tests/pump-tests.htm
“Groundwater Governance – A Global Framework for Action”http://www.groundwatergovernance.org/home/en/
“Groundwater Quality Protection Program”, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.illinois.gov/topics/water-quality/groundwater/
“Integration of Groundwater Management into Transboundary Basin Organizations in Africa” – Training Manual
SPIS Tools
- SAFEGUARD WATER 01-Water Requirement Tool: calculator to determine monthly water of different crops and livestock
- SAFEGUARD WATER 02- SPIS Water Resource Management Checklist: includes guidelines for regular inspection for the sustainable and legitimate abstraction of water
