Open AccessMogućnosti navodnjavanja podzemnim vodama u Hrvatskoj
Author(s) -
Ana Pejdo,
Željka Šiljković
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
geoadria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1848-9710
pISSN - 1331-2294
DOI - 10.15291/geoadria.118
Subject(s) - arable land , irrigation , water resource management , groundwater , water scarcity , agriculture , geography , scarcity , environmental protection , environmental science , natural resource economics , economics , engineering , ecology , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , biology , microeconomics
Groundwater is an important but under-utilized water resource in Croatia. If compared to other European countries Croatia is one of the richest regarding groundwater and total renewable reserves. In spite of that, water management systems have been built only on approximately 0.5 per cent of the total arable land. As Croatia has been affected by more frequent and longer droughts in the last decade, the scarcity of irrigated areas has become one of the vital issues in Croatian agriculture. On the other hand predominance of inefficientirrigationtechniques, lack or no maintenance of irrigation systems coupled with the absence of adequate government involvement can result in groundwater pollution.