Groundwater Use for Irrigation and its Productivity: Status and Opportunities for Crop Intensification for Food Security in Bangladesh

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1415-1429

  Ahmad, Mobin ud Din ^a   Kirby, Mac ^a   Islam, Mohammad Shahidul ^b   Hossain, Md Jakir ^c   Islam, Md Masbahul ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services   (Bangladesh)

^c Institute of Water Modelling   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Food security; Groundwater; Irrigation; Remote sensing; Water productivity; Yield gap

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DROUGHT; ENERGY BALANCE; FOOD SUPPLY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION; REMOTE SENSING;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CROP INTENSIFICATION; DRY-SEASON IRRIGATIONS; FOOD SECURITY; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; SECONDARY STATISTICS; WATER PRODUCTIVITY; YIELD GAP;

GROUNDWATER;

CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOOD SECURITY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; IRRIGATION; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84897578064     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0560-z     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ahmad MD, Bastiaanssen WGM, Feddes RA (2002) Sustainable use of groundwater for irrigation: a numerical analysis of sub-soil water fluxes. Irrig Drain 51(3): 227-241.
2. Ahmad MD, Bastiaanssen WGM, Feddes RA (2005) A new technique to estimate net groundwater use across large irrigated areas by combining remote sensing and water balance approaches, Rechna Doab, Pakistan. Hydrogeol J 13(5-6): 653-664.
3. Ahmad MD, Giordano M, Turral H, Masih I, Masood Z (2007) At what scale does water saving really save water? J Soil Water Conserv 62(2): 29A-35A.
4. Ahmad MD, Turral H, Nazeer A (2009) Diagnosing irrigation performance and water productivity through satellite remote sensing and secondary data in a large irrigation system of Pakistan. Agric Water Manag 96(4): 551-564.
5. Alauddin M, Sharma BR (2013) Inter-district rice water productivity differences in Bangladesh: an empirical exploration and implications. Ecol Econ 93(2013): 210-218.
6. Ali MH, Abustan I, Rahman MA, Haque AAM (2012) Sustainability of groundwater resources in the north-eastern region of Bangladesh. Water Resour Manag 26: 623-641.
7. Awan UK, Tischbein B, Conrad C, Martius C, Hafeez M (2011) Remote sensing and hydrological measurements for irrigation performance assessments in a water user association in the Lower Amu Darya River Basin. Water Resour Manag 25: 2467-2485.
8. BADC (2010) National minor irrigation census. Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh, Bangladesh.
9. Bastiaanssen WGM (2000) SEBAL-based sensible and latent heat fluxes in the irrigated Gediz Basin, Turkey. J Hydrol 229: 87-100.
10. Bastiaanssen WGM, Menenti M, Feddes RA, Holtslag AAM (1998) A remote sensing surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL), part 1: formulation. J Hydrol 212-213: 198-212.
11. Bastiaanssen WGM, Ahmad MD, Chemin Y (2002) Satellite surveillance of evaporative depletion across the Indus. Water Resour Res 38(12): 1273, 1-9.
12. Bastiaanssen WGM, Noordman EJM, Pelgrum H, Davids G, Thoreson BP, Allen RG (2005) SEBAL model with remotely sensed data to improve water-resources management under actual field conditions. J Irrig Drain Eng 131(1): 85-93.
13. BBS (2010) 2010 year book of agricultural statistics of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
14. Begum MEA, D'Haese L (2010) Supply and demand situation for major crops and food items in Bangladesh. J Bangladesh Agril Univ 8(1): 91-102.
15. Bhuyian SI (1984) Groundwater use for irrigation in Bangladesh: the prospects and some emerging issues. Agric Adm 16: 181-207.
16. Brutsaert W, Sugita M (1992) Application of self-preservation in the diurnal evolution of the surface energy budget to determine daily evaporation. J Geophys Res 97(D17): 18322-18377.
17. Campbell JB (2002) Introduction to remote sensing. The Guilford Press, New York.
18. Crago RD (1996) Conservation and variability of the evaporative fraction during the day time. J Hydrol 180: 173-194.
19. CSIRO (2014) Bangladesh integrated water resources assessment: final report (unpublished). Department of Foreign Affairs Australia Aid - CSIRO Research for Development Alliance Project, CSIRO-WfHC, Australia.
20. Faurès J, Svendsen M, Turral H (2007) Reinventing irrigation chapter 9. In: Molden D (ed) Water for food, water for life: a comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture. Earthscan and International Water Management Institute, London and Colombo.
21. Foley JA, Ramankutty N, Brauman KA, Cassidy ES, Gerber JS, Johnston M, Mueller ND, O'Connell C, Ray DK, West P, Balzer C, Bennett EM, Carpenter SR, Hill J, Monfreda C, Polasky S, Rockström J, Sheehan J, Siebert S, Tilman D, Zaks DPM (2011) Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478: 337-342.
22. Hijmans RJ, Cameron SE, Parra JL, Jones PG, Jarvis A (2005) Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. Int J Climatol 25: 1965-1978.
23. Hossain M (2010) Shallow tubewells, Boro rice, and their impact on food security in Bangladesh. Chapter 9. In: Spielman DJ, Pandya-Lorch R (eds) Proven successes in agricultural development: an IFPRI 2020 book. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, Available at http://www. ifpri. org/sites/default/files/publications/oc65. pdf (accessed April 2013).
24. Jaggard KW, Qi A, Ober ES (2010) Possible changes to arable crop yields by 2050. Phil Trans R Soc London Ser B 365: 2835-2851.
25. Jalota SK, Arora VK (2002) Model-based assessment of water balance components under different cropping systems in north-west India. Agric Water Manag 57: 75-87.
26. Jensen JR (1996) Introductory digital image processing: a remote sensing perspective. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
27. Kirby M, Ahmad MD, Poulton P, Zhu Z, Lee G, Mainuddin M (2013) Review of water, crop production and system modelling approaches for food security studies in the East Gangetic plains. CSIRO-WfHC, Australia, 75p. https://publications. csiro. au/rpr/pub?pid=csiro: EP134291.
28. Li Z, Liu X, Ma T, Kejia D, Zhou Q, Yaoc B, Niu T (2013) Retrieval of the surface evapotranspiration patterns in the alpine grassland-wetland ecosystem applying SEBAL model in the source region of the Yellow River, China. Ecol Model 270: 64-75.
29. Molden D, Sakthivadivel R (1999) Water accounting to assess use and productivity of water. Water Resour Dev 15: 55-71.
30. Mukherji A, Villholth KG, Sharma BR, Wang J (2009) Groundwater governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow river basins: realities and challenges. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 315p.
31. Muthuwatta LP, Ahmad MD, Bos MG, Rientjes THM (2010) Assessment of water availability and consumption in the Karkheh River Basin, Iran-using remote sensing and geo-statistics. Water Resour Manag 24(3): 459-484.
32. Ravenscroft P, Brammer H, Richards KS (2009) Arsenic pollution: a global synthesis. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. doi: 10. 1002/9781444308785.
33. Rientjes THM, Muthuwatta LP, Bos MG, Booij MJ, Bhatti HA (2013) Multi-variable calibration of a semi-distributed hydrological model using streamflow data and satellite-based evapotranspiration. J Hydrol 505: 276-290.
34. Shah T (2009) Taming the anarchy: groundwater governance in south Asia. RFF Press, Washington DC, 310 pp.
35. Shahid S (2011) Impact of climate change on irrigation water demand of dry season Boro rice northwest Bangladesh. Clim Chang 105: 433-453.
36. Shahid S, Behrawan H (2008) Drought risk assessment in the western part of Bangladesh. Nat Hazards 46: 391-413.
37. Shahid S, Hazarika MK (2010) Groundwater drought in the northwestern districts of Bangladesh. Water Resour Manag 24: 1989-2006.
38. Shamsudduha M, Chandler RE, Taylor R, Ahmed KM (2009) Recent trends in groundwater levels in a highly seasonal hydrological system: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 13: 2373-2385.
39. Tasumi M, Trezza R, Allen RG, Wright JL (2003) U. S. Validation tests on the SEBAL model for evapotranspiration via satellite. ICID Workshop on Remote Sensing of ET for Large Regions Montpellier, France 17 Sept. 2003.
40. van Ittersum M, Cassman KG, Grassini P, Wolf J, Tittonell P, Hochman Z (2013) Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance-a review. Field Crops Res 143: 4-17.
41. Wada Y, van Beek LPH, van Kempen CM, Reckman JWT, Vasak S, Bierkens MFP (2010) Global depletion of groundwater resources. Geophys Res Lett 37, L20402.
42. World Bank (2013) Bangladesh: priorities for agriculture and rural development. http://go. worldbank. org/770VR4DIU0. Accessed 19 Nov 2013.
43. Zwart SJ, Bastiaanssen WGM (2004) Review of measured crop water productivity values for irrigated wheat, rice, cotton and maize. Agric Water Manage 69: 115-133.