Costing of irrigation water in Kambos, Chania, Crete Island
Environmental management study for costing of irrigation water in Kambos, Chania, Crete Island
Country: Greece
Region: Crete – Prefecture of Chania
Duration: June 2006 - December 2008
Client: HELLENIC REPUBLIC, Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Administrative Sector for the Programming & Implementation of the 3rd CSF, Division of planning of reclamation works & soil-water resources exploitation
Main characteristics:
- Assessment of cultivation distribution in Kambos, Chania, with the use of remote sensing
- Assessment of the cultivations’ needs in water
- Formulation of a management irrigation, water supply and industrial supply model in the wider area
- Formulation of a hydro-geological model in order to asses the water balance and the progress of the quality of ground waters
- Formulation of a financial model for the assessment of financial cost, resource and environmental cost from the use of irrigation water
- Cost assessments of irrigation water for specific scenarios of hydrological conditions and combined operation of projects
- Proposals for water billing on the basis of financial analysis
- Use of HYMOS, RIBASIM models and Modflow simulation code
Important environmental issues:
- Assessment of the disperse pollution from cultivations
- Cost allocation of the nitrate pollution between the water and fertilizer use
- Assessment of point source pollution from residential development
- Allocation of the causes of pollution in each irrigation or water supply use
- Assessment of the environmental cost and resource cost on the basis of directive 2000/60/ΕΚ based on the prevention method (cost assessment on the basis of the necessary expenditure in order to deal with possible environmental damage)
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