How Canal Alignment should be done ? Canal Alignment should be done in such a way that It should serve the entire area proposed to be irrigated. Cost of construction including cross drainage works should be minimized. A shorter length of canal ensures less loss of head due to friction and smaller loss of discharge due to seepage and evaporation, so that additional … [Read more...] about Canal Alignment
Water Resources & Irrigation Engineering
Definition of Kor watering | Kor Period | Kor Depth
Kor watering The first watering is done when the crop has grown to about three centimeters. This watering is known as Kor watering. Kor Period The period during which kor watering is done is known as kor Period. … [Read more...] about Definition of Kor watering | Kor Period | Kor Depth
Drip irrigation or Trickle irrigation or Micro Irrigation
Drip irrigation Drip irrigation is the delivery of water to the roots of the plant at low flow rates through various types of water applicators by a distribution system located on the soil surface, beneath the surface, or suspended above the ground. … [Read more...] about Drip irrigation or Trickle irrigation or Micro Irrigation
Warabandi system of water management
Warabandi system of water management MEANING OF WARABANDI WARABANDI is a rotational method for equitable distribution of the available water in an irrigation system by turns fixed according to a predetermined schedule specifying year, day, time and duration of supply to each irrigator in proportion to the size of his landholding in the outlet command. The term WARABANDI … [Read more...] about Warabandi system of water management
Comparison between canals and drains
Comparison between canals and drains Following are the points of comparison between canal and drains. … [Read more...] about Comparison between canals and drains