The Importance of Monitoring at Irrigation Areas and GIS Applications: Water Table in Particular

Monitoring studies are inevitable in terms of ensuring the sustainability of irrigation, creating of awareness related to environmental impact, interfering and taking of measures if necessary besides efficient using water in irrigation applying. Furthermore, monitoring and evaluation studies are very important from the point of providing a basis for scientific researches on scenarios of climate change, drought, sea level rise in coastal areas by creating numerical analysis models of irrigation operation works. The one of the most important activities of irrigation operation phase is monitoring water table. The objective of this study is to assess the change  of water table depth and groundwater salinity for the years  2003, 2008 and 2013. In this study, the data obtained from water table monitoring works in an irrigation project operated is evaluated by using Geographic Information Systems which provide efficient and rapid assessment and recommendations are presented.