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ESTIMATING IRRIGATION WATER USE THROUGH SELECTIVE MONITORING: A NORTH FLORIDA CASE STUDY 1
Author(s) -
Wyant Timothy,
Shoemyen John
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1980.tb02550.x
Subject(s) - environmental science , irrigation , sampling (signal processing) , water resource management , water use , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental monitoring , environmental engineering , engineering , ecology , filter (signal processing) , electrical engineering , geotechnical engineering , biology
Selective placement ‐ under a rigorous statistical sampling design ‐ of newly available monitoring equipment on irrigation systems may provide effective and economical estimates of total irrigation water use in areas where complete water use inventories are impractical. In 1979, a joint effort by the U.S. Geological Survey and Florida's Suwannee River Water Management District was launched to estimate the District's 1979 irrigation water use using a selective monitoring approach. Analysis of previous inventories of irrigation equipment and amounts of water applied in the District indicated that total 1979 water use estimates with six to nine percent sampling error could be obtained using selective monitoring, given the time and equipment limitations for the monitoring program. Restricting monitoring to a sample of farms can introduce systematic error to water use estimates if farmers' participation is related to their water use methods. Preliminary results of the 1979 study indicate tht declining participation rates, if unchecked, could lead to serious systematic eror in future North Florida selective monitoring studies.