Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Public Collective Irrigated Systems

Abstract

Irrigated agriculture is the largest consumer of water (in the country, in Europe and in the world The need to increase crop production led to the transfer of a rainfed agriculture to irrigated agriculture improving at about 10 times the productivity of cultures However, also created the trend for the election of certain specific cultures Rehabilitation of collective irrigation systems with many years of operation and modernization of the existing perimeters, predominantly in channel flow, to transport in pressure increasing energy consumption, claims to adapt to climate change of this water supply service For this reason, the Collective Irrigated Systems are great consumers of water and energy and it’s necessary to develop and implement plans for optimize water and energy management and also a climate change mitigation and adaptation plan In this work a Performance System to the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plan is presented evaluating success of mitigate and adaptation measures, the satisfaction of agricultural irrigation users and the preservation of the sustainability of the service