Title:	ASSESSMENT PLATFORM OF WATER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN COLLECTIVE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
Author(s):	André Antunes, Diogo Felicíssimo, Bruno Ferreira and Nelson Carriço
ISBN:	978-989-8704-15-3
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías, Philip Powell and Boyan Bontchev
Year:	2020
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Water Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Collective Irrigation Systems, Assessment Tool, Information System
Type:	Short
First Page:	151
Last Page:	155
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Southern European countries do not have regular precipitation to assure the agricultural water needs, since precipitation occurs scarcely from April to October. As such, irrigation is essential for agriculture and is only possible with the existence of hydraulic infrastructures for storage and water conveyance. In Portugal, these hydraulic infrastructures are mostly public, forming collective irrigation systems, and managed by Irrigation Associations. The efficiency of irrigation should be assured through a set of guidelines and procedures promoting a more efficient use of water and energy. Furthermore, in Portugal there are currently no performance assessment system developed to evaluate the water and energy efficiency in CIS. The current practice for the assessment of water and energy efficiency is a set of reactive and unintegrated actions. As such, the gathered information is not usually organized and does not follow systematic procedures. Additionally, appropriate indicators for water and energy loss diagnostic are not defined, thus making it impossible to compare efficiencies between CIS. In this context, the AGIR R&D project aiming the establishment of a performance assessment system for water and energy efficiency assessment in CIS was developed. One of the outcomes of the project was the development of a user-friendly platform for the CIS management utilities to assess its water and energy efficiencies. This paper presents the platform AGIR, its functionalities and main components. The platform was designed allowing systematic and uniform data introduction, for usage by various decision support modules.
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