{"title":"Towards Ensuring a Water and Food Secure World in the Context of Climate Change","authors":"R. K. Gupta","doi":"10.1002/ird.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.70013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 3","pages":"1354-1356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender–Responsive Climate–Resilient Strategies","authors":"R. K. Gupta","doi":"10.1002/ird.3109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 2","pages":"880-882"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging Irrigation and Drainage Technologies: A Bibliometric Review of the Journal Irrigation and Drainage From 2010 to 2024","authors":"Jiusheng Li, Zhen Wang","doi":"10.1002/ird.3087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3087","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Irrigation and Drainage (IRD) is a prestigious peer-reviewed journal with an international reputation and publishes technical papers on all scientific, engineering, environmental and socio-economic issues associated with irrigation, drainage and flood management. During the past 15 years from 2010 to 2024, 1517 papers were published in the journal. We analysed all these articles using bibliometric techniques to examine the impact of the journal's publications, the most productive and influential authors, and their contributions to the field of irrigation, drainage and flood management. Co-authorship among the top authors, co-occurrences of the topics, cocitations of the journals, bibliographic coupling of the authors and affiliated institutes and countries were analysed by applying network analysis techniques via VOSviewer software. The advancements in research during the last 15 years are also critically highlighted to understand recent developments in the field of irrigation, drainage and flood management. Future directions are also proposed in this review and might provide guidance for future research on irrigation, drainage and flood management.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 1","pages":"3-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Millar, Nickolas Alverson, Casey Kennedy, Peter Jeranyama, Anthony Buda, Jonathan Duncan
{"title":"Nitrogen and Phosphorus Losses in Shallow Tile Drainage and Surface Water From an Agricultural Peatland: A Case Study of Extreme Summer Rainfall From Southeastern Massachusetts, United States","authors":"David Millar, Nickolas Alverson, Casey Kennedy, Peter Jeranyama, Anthony Buda, Jonathan Duncan","doi":"10.1002/ird.3083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3083","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tile drainage has been incorporated into many cranberry production operations. Given the potential water quality impacts of tile drainage, we quantified its contribution to surface water flows and nutrient loads for a 2 ha cranberry bed during the 2014 growing season. Our results revealed that tile drainage tracked surface water flow except during (1) two major daily storm events ( > 99th percentile and > 95th percentile based on local rainfall records), which caused enhanced overland and shallow subsurface flow, and (2) extended dry periods, when surface water was stored in ditches and/or recharged to groundwater. The combination of the two major storms contributed 44% of the total N (TN) export load in the growing season and 39% of the total P (TP) export load in the growing season. The TN load in tile drainage (4.3 kg ha<sup>−1</sup>) accounted for approximately half of that exported in surface water (7.5 kg ha<sup>−1</sup>), indicating a substantial release of N during major storm events in the form of runoff, shallow groundwater flow, and potentially from the release of ditch sediments. Conversely, the TP load in tile drainage (2.7 kg ha<sup>−1</sup>) was approximately twice that exported in surface water (1.5 kg ha<sup>−1</sup>), which was consistent with the retention of P in ditch sediments.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 3","pages":"1326-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydraulic Performance of Measurement-Control Integrated Side Sluice Gates Under Subcritical Flow Conditions","authors":"Tiantian Liu, Wenyong Wu, Ziming Li, Yaqi Hu, Aike Guo","doi":"10.1002/ird.3085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3085","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The lack of a precise flow measurement device for terminal irrigation channel diversion often results in significant inaccuracies. To address this issue, a wide-bottom sill flow measurement device, the ‘measurement-control integrated side sluice gate’ (MCIS), was developed to facilitate accurate flow measurement. This study investigated the hydraulic characteristics and mechanism of lateral flow in the MCIS, including flow regimes, changes in water surface profiles and assessments of head losses. Discharge equations for the MCIS were then created via dimensional analysis and multiple nonlinear regression, and their accuracy was assessed and validated. The findings reveal that at high relative openings (<i>e</i>/<i>H</i><sub>1</sub>), the flow through the MCIS follows weir flow characteristics, whereas at low <i>e</i>/<i>H</i><sub>1</sub> ratios, it exhibits orifice flow behaviour. The transition point between these flow regimes, identified as the critical relative opening (<i>e</i>/<i>H</i><sub>1</sub>)<sub><i>c</i></sub>, is 0.84. The overall accuracy of flow measurement using the MCIS gate structure is 4%, with the weir flow equation achieving an average accuracy of 1.4%, surpassing the accuracy of the rectangular sharp-crested side weir flow measurement equation by more than 2.5 times. Similarly, the average accuracy of the orifice flow equation is 4%, which is 1.1 times higher than that of the rectangular spire side orifice.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 3","pages":"915-932"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the Clogging Mechanism in Membrane Discharge Irrigation Systems Using Reclaimed Water: A Comparative Case Study of Trace Quantity Irrigation and Moistube Irrigation","authors":"Ping Xu, Yuanzhe Zhao, Yumin Ou","doi":"10.1002/ird.3082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3082","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Trace quantity irrigation (TQI) and moistube irrigation (MTI) are membrane discharge irrigation (MDI) systems designed to minimize water use and prevent clogging. When laboratory-prepared reclaimed water (similar to the China Class I-B standard) was used, emitter clogging (EC) occurred faster in the TQI, escalating within 216 h, compared to 312 h for the MTI. Analysis of dry weight (DW), extracellular polysaccharides (PSs) and proteins (PNs) in different parts of the irrigation pipes revealed that the PS and PN contents contributed to the EC, with the end part being the most affected. High-throughput sequencing identified <i>Proteobacteria</i> as a key factor in clogging, with <i>Aquabacterium</i> being dominant in TQI and <i>Pseudomonas</i> in MTI, whereas <i>Methylophilus</i> was common to both, suggesting that aerobic and anaerobic alternations exist in the irrigation pipe. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations indicated that the TQI had a faster flow velocity and greater water shear, leading to greater DWs in MTI (1.79–2.27 times higher than the TQI) but similar PS (1.06–1.47 times) and PN (0.87–1.03 times) levels. To manage clogging, MDI systems should apply chlorination with pressure flushing before clogging intensifies, adjusting the flushing duration according to the water quality.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 3","pages":"983-997"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mayara Oliveira Rocha, Amilton Gabriel Siqueira de Miranda, Policarpo Aguiar da Silva, Carlos Augusto Brasileiro de Alencar, Fernando França da Cunha
{"title":"Performance of ‘Sabiá’ Grass Irrigated with Drippers Installed in the Subsurface","authors":"Mayara Oliveira Rocha, Amilton Gabriel Siqueira de Miranda, Policarpo Aguiar da Silva, Carlos Augusto Brasileiro de Alencar, Fernando França da Cunha","doi":"10.1002/ird.3081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3081","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Subsurface irrigation, which provides greater water efficiency and reduces surface soil wetting, is an effective alternative for minimizing water losses through evaporation, especially under cultivation conditions that require greater resource conservation. The ‘Sabiá’ grass, an agronomically relevant forage species, may exhibit different responses when irrigated by subsurface systems. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of ‘Sabiá’ grass irrigated with drippers installed at different depths during different climatic seasons. The experiment was carried out from January to July 2022 under open-air conditions in Viçosa, MG, Brazil, in a completely randomized design in split plots with four replicates. The plots consisted of four cycles of ‘Sabiá’ grass, and the subplots consisted of seven depths of dripper installation (superficial, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 cm). ‘Sabiá’ grass was cultivated in pots, and the recommendations for irrigation were based on crop evapotranspiration (ETc), which was measured in two drainage lysimeters. The water consumption and morphogenetic and agronomic characteristics of ‘Sabiá’ grass were evaluated. The total water consumption of ‘Sabiá’ grass in cycles 1, 2, 3, and 4 was 42.4, 26.7, 14.9, and 11.5, respectively. The growth, development and productivity of ‘Sabiá’ grass decreased from cycle 1 (summer) to cycle 4 (winter). Morphogenic characteristics were slightly affected by the different dripper installation depths. ‘Sabiá’ grass presented lower shoot fresh mass, shoot dry mass and water use productivity at the greatest dripper depths. ‘Sabiá’ grass presented greater root system development when the dripper was installed between 10 and 15 cm deep. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) proved to be a promising tool for estimating the biomass production of ‘Sabiá’ grass. In view of these results, drip tapes should be installed between depths of 10 and 20 cm for the cultivation of ‘Sabiá’ grass in clay soil.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 3","pages":"1154-1172"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144614896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agricultural Water Management for Rural Development","authors":"R. K. Gupta","doi":"10.1002/ird.3088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 1","pages":"491-492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143455837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subsurface Irrigation With Ceramic Emitters Improved the Water Productivity and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Greenhouse Melons.","authors":"Mengxue Han, Lin Zhang, Xiao Zhao, Kai Xie","doi":"10.1002/ird.3084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3084","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Increasing nitrogen use efficiency in agricultural fields is crucial for sustainable agricultural development. In a 2-year greenhouse study, we compared two methods, subsurface irrigation with ceramic emitters (SICE) and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI), to evaluate their effects on soil moisture and nitrogen distribution, photosynthetic efficiency and plant stoichiometry. The results showed that SICE can reduce the soil nitrate nitrogen content by approximately 20% while maintaining the soil moisture content at 70%–80%, improving the photosynthetic efficiency and melon yield. Under the optimal yield treatment (applying 60.67 kg of nitrogen fertilizer per hectare), compared with SDI, SICE increased yield by 8%, water productivity by 13%, nitrogen absorption efficiency by 4% and nitrogen use efficiency by 3%. In addition, by analysing the stoichiometric characteristics of melon at different nitrogen fertilizer application rates and growth stages under the two irrigation methods, we found that the main reason for the increase in SICE yield was the coupled effect of the increase in plant photosynthetic efficiency and the need for plants to maintain their internal stoichiometric balance.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":14848,"journal":{"name":"Irrigation and Drainage","volume":"74 3","pages":"885-899"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}