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SPIS Toolbox - Safeguard Water - Further Readings
Introduction
Do want to know all about SPIS – Solar Powered Irrigation System : Please go to the newly launched standalone Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) website (www.spis-toolbox.org) , featuring three SPIS toolbox:
- Toolbox for beginners,
- Toolbox for farmers (new SPIS Web based App – to calculate design of the pumps),
- the Toolbox for experts - the updated version - Version 6
and additional resources (Publication about SPIS).
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
- Cech, T. V. (2010): Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management, and Policy. USA: John Wily & Sons.
- Hahn, A., Sass, J. & Fröhlich, C. (2015): Manual and tools for promoting SPIS. Multicountry - Stocktak-ing and Analysis Report. GFA Consulting Group. Retrieved from .....
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (2010): Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/tad/sustainable-agriculture/sustainablemanagementofwaterresourcesinagriculture.htm
- Ponce, V.M. (2006): Groundwater Utilization and Sustainability. Retrieved from http://groundwater.sdsu.edu/
- Shah, T. (2014): Groundwater Governance and Irrigated Agriculture. In: Tec Background Series 19. Stockholm, Sweden: Elanders. Retrieved from http://www.gwp.org/globalassets/global/toolbox/publications/background-papers/gwp_tec_19_web.pdf
- Tuinhof, A., Van Steenbergen, F., Vos, P. & Tolk, L. (2012): Profit from Storage. The costs and benefits of water buffering. Wageningen, the Netherlands. Retrieved from https://www.un-igrac.org/file/767/download?token=wMZRuxFp
Websites
- Ground Water Governance. A global Framework for Action. Retrieved from http://www.groundwatergovernance.org/home/en/
- Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffen (BGR): Trainingsmanual - Integration of Groundwater Management into Transboundary Organizations in Africa. Retrieved from https://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Zusammenarbeit/TechnZusammenarbeit/Politikberatung_GW/Produkte/Trainings_Manual.html
- Duffield, G. M.: Aquifer Testing 101. Pumping Test. AQTESOLV. Retrieved from http://www.aqtesolv.com/pumping-tests/pump-tests.htm
- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency: Groundwater Quality Protection Program. Retrieved from http://www.epa.illinois.gov/topics/water-quality/groundwater/
SPIS Tools
- SAFEGUARD WATER – Water Requirement Tool: calculator to determine monthly water of different crops and livestock
- SAFEGUARD WATER – SPIS Water Resource Management Checklist: includes guidelines for regular inspection for the sustainable and legitimate abstraction of water
