SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION EXPERIENCE

UHL & Associates, Inc. addresses a number of issues for small scale irrigation ranging from water resource availability and quality for irrigation applications to source construction alternatives. Principal areas of expertise include:

• Groundwater and surface water availability analysis.
• Normal and drought conditions and climate change impact assessments.
• Evaluation of the potential for water logging and soil salinity.
• Water quality conditions and constraints for irrigation applications.
• Source construction alternatives for groundwater systems.

TECHNICAL AREAS

PLANNING

• Groundwater and surface water development feasibility.
• Evaluation of potential for water logging and soil salinity.
• Source construction alternatives (open/dug wells; drilled wells; surface intakes).
• Pumping systems:
  - Conventional.
  - Solar.
  - Treadle.
  - Low lift.

WATER QUALITY ISSUES

• Field and laboratory testing of surface water and groundwater quality.
• Evaluation of salinity and sodium hazard potential.

APPLICATIONS

• Meeting crop water requirements.
• Drip, sprinkler, and surface systems.

SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS

• Surface water and groundwater systems.
• Local and regional groundwater systems analysis.
• Normal and drought conditions analysis.
• Water quality reliability.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

CENTRAL INDIA

• Source development for small farmers (Betul, Madhya Pradesh).
• Hand-dug open well improvements (Betul, Madhya Pradesh).

AFGHANISTAN

• Mazar Foods Project - Test wells and groundwater resource evaluation (Chemonics).
• Farah Province Irrigation - Irrigation wells installation and commissioning (ARD/Tetratech).

NIGERIA/WEST AFRICA

• Taraba - Water evaluation (WorldWater & Solar Technologies, Inc.).
• Cameroon - Spring water systems installation (Engineers Without Borders, Univ. of Pennsylvania).

Small Scale Plot in Farah Province, Afghanistan	Wheat Fields Under Irrigation in Balkh Province, Afghanistan