SPIS Toolbox - Safeguard Water - Further Readings
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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.
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Further Reading, Links and Tools
Further Reading
- “Groundwater Governance and Irrigated Agri-culture” 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 Cooperation Agency (GIZ), Eschborn, Germany (2015)
- “Sustainable Management of Water Resources in 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 Frame-work 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
