European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-571
  • fiwar:
    LIFE05 ENV/E/000313
  • Project_Acronym:
    gEa
  • Project_Name:
    Excellence in irrigation water management
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    Water scarcity and drought
  • Begin Date:
    2005-09-01
  • End Date:
    2007-02-28
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    € 000 402 889.00
  • Description:
    The project aimed to demonstrate the use of “gEa”, an interoperable irrigation management platform, in the El Vicario community in Guadiana, Spain. The online system supports decision-making by offering the automated and real-time reading of meters, control of water quality, regulation of water consumption and detection of leaks. Considerable water savings were expected, along with better control of salinity levels and exploitation of nutrients. The main objective of the project was to demonstrate the gEa system in 'El Vicario' Irrigation Community (Spain). The gEa system, which offers decision support functionality, can be accessed via the internet, and aims to modernise and optimise irrigation water management systems. First, the project was to develop the capacity of gEa to control water consumption and to improve the technical, hydraulic and administrative management of 'El Vicario', providing a basis to expand it on a larger scale. Next, the project aimed to develop gEa as a decision support system that determines the best option for each irrigation community in order to systematically optimise the management of the entire river basin. More specifically, the project was to provide ubiquitous access to gEa water management services and irrigation management information, to automate the community system by means of remote control, using gEa to communicate with the existing devices, to provide decision support mechanisms that help irrigation programming, to provide alternative access to the irrigation information, to bridge the gap between the latest technologies and modern irrigation water management systems, and to train farmers in the use of information technologies to support the management of their irrigation communities.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE05-ENV-E-000313/excellence-in-irrigation-water-management
  • Inland water types:
    Urban water', 'Rivers and estuaries'