Water-Food Nexus in Sakarya Watershed

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2019-06-19

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Özel, Beyza
Başkan, Oğuz
Alp, Emre

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Sakarya River is the Turkey’s third longest river and the Sakarya watershed covers 8% of the surface area of Turkey. Significant agricultural activities accounts for most of the water withdrawals in the upper Sakarya Watershed. Within the scope of water-food nexus, water efficiency of agricultural irrigation have to be improved to aid sustainable water and agricultural management in the study area. The water potential and water uses were evaluated by Water Evaluation Planning System (WEAP) model in Upper Sakarya Watershed. Model was calibrated with the observed reservoir storage and the streamflow. According to results, agriculture is found to be the main water consumer in the watershed. Agricultural management scenarios considered the efficient use of irrigation water with alterations in the current irrigation techniques and crop patterns. When more efficient irrigation systems and less water-intensive crops were selected, irrigation water use decreases between 5-16% while unmet crop demand decreases between 6-13%.

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Water-Food Nexus, Agriculture, Water efficiency, WEAP model

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http://agro2019.itu.edu.tr/
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87496

Conference Name

10th IWA International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries (AGRO’2019), 19 - 21 June 2019

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Department of Environmental Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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B. Özel, O. Başkan, and E. Alp, “Water-Food Nexus in Sakarya Watershed,” presented at the 10th IWA International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries (AGRO’2019), 19 - 21 June 2019, Rhodes Island, Greece, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://agro2019.itu.edu.tr/.