Proceedings of SANCID 2004 Symposium, "Integrated Water Resources Management Challenges for Irrigated Agricaulture"
 - Fish River Sun 16-19 November 2004
 

The papers presented at the Symposium are available on request from Linda Smit at lindas@wrc.org.za.

   
17 November 2004
Opening of the symposium – Dr Gerhard Backeberg
Keynote address – Prof. Roland Schulze
 
Session 1: Small-Scale Irrigation Issues (Chairperson: Andrew Sanewe)
 
 

Marna de Lange

Revitalisation of small-scale irrigation schemes in the Limpopo

  Jonathan Denison

Water resource management for local development: Governance, Institutions and Policies

  Litha Magingxa
Trends, opportunities & constraints for the revitalization of small-scale irrigation schemes in South Africa
  Claudious Chikozho
Policy & institutional dimensions of small-holder farmer innovations in the Thukela River Basin of South Africa & the Pangani River Basin or Tanzania: A comparative perspective
  Mosima Masekoameng Community water management: how does the policy issues impact on small holder farmers & rural women?

 

Session 2: Appropriate Technology – Small-Scale Farmers (Chairperson: Chris Stimie)
 
 

Martin Steyn

Small-scale farmer irrigation management with irrigation calendars & wetting front detectors
  Abraham Singels Improving irrigation water use efficiency of small-scale sugarcane production by real-time scheduling advice using weather data, a web based crop model & cellular technology
  Jonathan Denison A irrigation design toolkit of standard flood irrigation structures a set of detailed design drawings and quantities

Session 3: Water Harvesting (Chairperson: Godfrey Kundlande)

 

Leon van Rensburg

Towards a turn-around strategy for alleviating poverty at household level through up-scaling of water harvesting
  Danie Beukes Rural natural Resources and its productive use: Implications for water harvesting
  Nomakhaya Monde The spiral of poverty in rural villages: current status, constrains and challenges
  Cobus Botha
Up scaling water harvesting in the Free State Province from backyards to croplands: successes, constraints, challenges
  Piet le Roux Soilscape survey for planning in-filed rainwater harvesting in Thaba Nchu
   
18 November 2004
Session 4: Water Management Challenges (Chairperson: Hilmy Sally)
 
 

Nic Knoetze

Water resource management on the level of WUA
  Andrew Pott Fractional water allocation: implications for irrigation farmers
  Kevin Scott Development of an irrigation water risk analysis model (IW-RAM)
  Pieter van Heerden Water management plans: The effect of irrigation strategy on irrigation requirement
  Isobel van der Stoep Further development of indirect measuring methods for pumped irrigation water supplies.

Session 5: Irrigation Scheduling and Water Use Efficiency (Chairperson: Abraham Singels)

 

Neil Lecler

"Sasched": A water conservation & demand management tool for irrigated sugarcane
  Nebo Jovanovic Testing the FAO Biomass-water productivity function using data from Witbank (South Africa)
  Carolyn Howell Water saving irrigation technology for Viticulture in South Africa
  Paul du Plessis The role of Mesoscale weather networks in irrigation scheduling for rural water resource management
  Emile Jordaan Water conservation: the use of appropriate technology to determine readily available water in the active root zone of plants

 

Session 6: Irrigation System Uniformity (Chairperson: Isobel van der Stoep)
 
 

Felix Reinders

Performance of drip irrigation systems under field conditions
  Khumoesile Mmolawa Evaluation of water application uniformity under a center pivot irrigation system
  Greg Ascough Accounting for uniformity of applied irrigation using multiple water balances in ZIMsched 2.0
  Herbital Maluleke The potential of water pricing as an instrument for water conservation in irrigated agriculture

 

Session 7: Environmental Issues (Chairperson: Meiring du Plessis)
 
 

Bennie Grové

Cost effectiveness of uniform fertiliser taxes and increasing water charges to combat water pollution from irrigated agriculture
  Jack Armour Using SALMOD, & economic optimisation model to help decide whether to adopt more salt resistant crops or whether to remediate saline soils.
  Piet Nell The effect of the Blesbokspruit Wetland system on the Purification of gold mine effluent water for use by irrigated agriculture
  John Annandale The environment sustainability of large scale irrigation with mine water
  Theresa Volschenk Water quality and soil salinity in the Orange River Basin

 

  Posters
 
 

Leon van Rensburg

A critical assessment o the technical aspects of rainwater harvesting for crop production.
  Piet le Roux Effect of irrigation on soil salinity profiles along the lower Vaal river, South Africa.
  Mompathi Baiphethi SEM-IRWH: A model for simulating socio-economic impacts of crop production on household food securities.

 

The papers presented at the Symposium are available on request from Linda Smit at lindas@wrc.org.za.