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• TITLE: Irrigation Planning with Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater Using Fuzzy Resources

  AUTHORS: D. G. Regulwar, V. S. Pradhan

  KEYWORDS: Conjunctive Use; Irrigation Planning; Fuzzy Linear Programming (FLP); Uncertainties; Optimization

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Water Resource and Protection, Vol.5 No.8, August 14, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Surface and groundwater are related systems. They can be used conjunctively to maximize the efficient use of available resources. Groundwater may be used to supplement surface water to cope with the irrigation demands to meet the deficits in low rainfall periods. The parameters involved in the present study are groundwater availability, surface water availability, water requirement of crops and crop area. The inclusion of such uncertain parameters leads to accept the decision making process beyond the consideration of economic benefits. In the present study, an irrigation planning model is formulated by considering the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater. The resources in the present model, i.e. the area, surface water and groundwater availability are represented by fuzzy set. The linear membership function is used to fuzzify the objective function and resources. The model is applied to a case study of Jayakwadi project and solved for maximization of the degree of satisfaction (l) which is 0.546.