Comparison of Irrigation Management in Water User Associations of Italy, Spain and Turkey Using Benchmarking Techniques

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dc.authorid0000-0002-5743-3996
dc.authorid0000-0002-7168-226X
dc.authorid0000-0002-9621-7786
dc.contributor.authorArslan, Firat
dc.contributor.authorCorcoles Tendero, Juan Ignacio
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez Diaz, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorZema, Demetrio Antonio
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-24T12:30:59Z
dc.date.available2026-01-24T12:30:59Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentAlanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis study analyses the collective management of irrigation water in 42 WUAs operating in agricultural regions of Italy, Spain and Turkey. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Agglomerative Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (AHCA) are used for benchmarking the technical and financial performance of the WUAs. The analysis shows that the Spanish WUAs, which have less staff (-90%) and higher revenue collection (-53%), perform better than the WUAs of the other two countries. PCA and AHCA indicate that the technical and financial performance of the Turkish and some Spanish WUAs are similar. The Italian and Turkish associations have very large irrigation areas, and WUAs, which may be one of the reasons for the poor management in some organization areas of these countries. Specifically, Italy has excessive Management, Operation and Maintenance costs (up to 1500 is an element of/ha-yr) and large staff numbers (5 persons per 100 ha of irrigated area), while Turkey has high water waste (up to 15000 m(3)/ha-yr) and insufficient revenue collection (about 60%). Based on the benchmarking results, recommendations are made, to improve the water use and financial performance of the Italian and Turkish WUAs.
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [PID2020-115998RB-C21]
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research carried out by the University of Cordoba (Spain) was funded by the project PID2020-115998RB-C21of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The other authors declare that no funds, grants, or other support during the preparation of this manuscript.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11269-022-03355-2
dc.identifier.endpage74
dc.identifier.issn0920-4741
dc.identifier.issn1573-1650
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85140013115
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage55
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-022-03355-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12868/5558
dc.identifier.volume37
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000869340500005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofWater Resources Management
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260121
dc.subjectPerformance indicators
dc.subjectCollective irrigation
dc.subjectPrincipal Component Analysis
dc.subjectCluster Analysis
dc.subjectFinancial management
dc.subjectTechnical management
dc.titleComparison of Irrigation Management in Water User Associations of Italy, Spain and Turkey Using Benchmarking Techniques
dc.typeArticle

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