Professional Documents
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• Space
• Time
Delta Barrage
Red
Sea
Example: EGYPT
High Aswan
Dam
55.2 1.2
(98%) (2%)
HAD Release Nile to Sea
Rainfall
(2%)
1.0
12.5
36.8 (65%)
(22%)
Crop Evapotranspiration Drainage to
Canals 52.53 Sea & Lakes
Diversion 65.3
Nile Reaches 3.64 0.50
(1%)
Nile GrWater 4.73 Drainage to
5.3 (10%) Fayoum
Depression
Drainage Reuse 4.4 Evaporative Depletion
M&I 2.34
Drainage
Environmental Flows
Depleted 48.2
DFgross 0.86
Gross Inflow 56.2
7.5BUS $ US $
3
0.20 3
36.8km m
0.25
0.15
per unit gross inflow
0.10
0.05
0.00
1973
1975
1977
1979
1981
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
Source: David Molden
Productivity of Water
• Value per unit of water
• In agriculture - crop per drop
• broadly - benefits derived per unit of water used
• which crop - which drop?
• In agriculture kg/m3 of ET, or kg/m3 of diversions
• Or $/m3 ET or diversions
Crop ET
Uncommitted Outflows
Committed Outflows
Reallocation
Crops
Huma n uses
Surface 90%
740km3 City uses
Vegetation
Rain
Groundwater mining
Other
Chishtian evaporation
Environmental
commitments
Source: David Molden
Renault et al, 2000
INDUSTRIAL
ENVIRONMENT FISHING
Crop
22%
Process
Depletion
C(95)
Beneficial
Net
Available Depleted 43%
Inflow
GROSS (478)
(431) (335) Non Process L (183)
INFLOW Depletion fallow
(475)
Non-Beneficial 13% (56) 7% (32)
32 from fallow
Outflow N
Uncom m itted 22% (96)
trees
• Calculate Eto
• Find Kc
• Calculate ETc
• Area * Etc = Crops process depletion
• Non process- beneficial: Find Kc for natural vegetation (see
FAO Manual at
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0490e/x0490e0f.htm)
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