Case Study - Improving water availability management for agriculture, West Bank and Gaza Strip...
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FAO Emergency and Rehabilitation Office – WB Improving water availability Improving water availability management for agriculture, West management for agriculture, West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) Case Study Case Study Tammoun Watershed Tammoun Watershed Azzam Saleh Ayasa FAO WBGS Land and Water Days Land and Water Days Amman 14-18 December 2013 Amman 14-18 December 2013
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Improving water availability management for agriculture, West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) Case Study Tammoun Watershed, By Azzam Saleh Ayasa, FAO WBGS, Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
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Improving water availability management for Improving water availability management for agriculture, West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS)agriculture, West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS)
Case Study Case Study Tammoun Watershed Tammoun Watershed
Azzam Saleh Ayasa
FAO WBGSLand and Water DaysLand and Water Days
Amman 14-18 December 2013Amman 14-18 December 2013
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Context
Jordan Valley
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ProblemsProblems•Management (Use it or loose it, time allocation)•User management (small scale farmers)• Quality service•Low productivity (less than 0.3 ton/dunum), •High cost (USD 4/CM, energy), •Limited crop options, •Limited access of poor to water , land and jobs•Skills and knowledge
ProblemsProblems•Management (Use it or loose it, time allocation)•User management (small scale farmers)• Quality service•Low productivity (less than 0.3 ton/dunum), •High cost (USD 4/CM, energy), •Limited crop options, •Limited access of poor to water , land and jobs•Skills and knowledge
ConsequencesConsequences•Missed opportunityMissed opportunity•Land abandonedLand abandoned•Lower resilienceLower resilience•Higher food insec Higher food insec
ConsequencesConsequences•Missed opportunityMissed opportunity•Land abandonedLand abandoned•Lower resilienceLower resilience•Higher food insec Higher food insec
Tammoun Area, north east WB Tammoun Area, north east WB
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400 donums120 poor families
Reservoirs
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Main pipe from th
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The well of 160 cubic meter per hour
Tamoun village
Al-Far’a camp
Field 1: 57 farmers
Field 2: 56 farmers
Project pipes:4 inches
The reservoirs location at 363 cubic meters per each unit (4 units= 1452 Cubic meters capacity)
ReservoirsReservoirs1500 CM1500 CM2 KM pipelines2 KM pipelines400 donums irrigated400 donums irrigated120 Farmers 120 Farmers
ReservoirsReservoirs1500 CM1500 CM2 KM pipelines2 KM pipelines400 donums irrigated400 donums irrigated120 Farmers 120 Farmers
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Adapted management model: •Water Users Association (WUA) responsible for water management distribution and, direct supervision of the Municipality
•Overall supervision of the MoA (to which the reservoirs were handed over).
•Water flow meters per farm.
Payment model: The WUA collects the cost per cubic meter, then pay to the water source (wells owners).
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BEFORE (2007)4 USD/CM0.3 ton/donum
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AFTER< 1 USD/CM6 tons/donum
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•Involvement and participation: community, government, local authorities, NGOs..etc•Inclusive approach: social, economical, production and environment (not just a reservoir)•Integrated approach: technical, economical, demand/supply management , services, quality•Accountability and transparency: vis a vis beneficiaries and actors (MoA, NGOs, local authorities..etc)•Adaptability and flexibility: for future opportunities/constraints at all levels
Considerations and lessons learnt
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•Volume of reservoir to fit with available water (pumping rate per hour and pumping intervals), water distribution scheme and irrigation area, discharge and refilling rates (sustainable and continuous).
•Site of the reservoir to guarantee pressure of at least 2 atm. (at least 20 meters higher than the nearest plot to be irrigated).
•The flow must be calculated and the curves, valves, etc. to be taken in to consideration as well as the fraction lose from/ to the feeding/irrigation pipes.
•The welling of farmers to participate and payback the cost of used water.
•Good management plan and water distribution scheme.
•At least two water sources (example: 2 wells to feed the reservoirs)
•In case of many reservoir units to be linked together, each reservoir unit to be assembled also as an independent unit
Considerations and lessons learnt (Technical)
