SUN4Water
Country & User Cases
Using an exemplary use-case, the Country Case Cards (CCC) give you some parameters. Using the SPIS-Expert-tools, answers to several questions can be found. Please notice that all CCCs (especially the ones which are already prefilled) refer to the outdated version 4 of the tools! However, the CCCs can be of great use in order to get familiar to the way Excel-sheets work in general.
Country Case Card
Kenya
Miss Mary Wanjiku received about 2.5 acres of uncultivated land from the Kenyan government one year ago and set out to make a living as a farmer. Mary’s farm is busy with 3 dairy cows grazing on pastures and a field of 1 acre planted with tomatoes. She sells the products on the local markets.
Country Case Card
Chile
These PDFs use the New Web-Based APP to calculate crop and livestock water demand and gives estimated dimensions of pump and solar panels as results. The examples can be shown here because the users of the App allowed to publish their results in the section «Data Protection»
New Web-App
Malawi
The farm Mzuzu in Malawi with a total surface to be irrigated of 0.5 Hectares and an irrigation source yield of 1000 m³/h shall be irrigated by Direct Feed. The average daily solar irradiation in March is 5.63 kWh/m². See here how big a pump must be and what type of solar panels this farmer needs…
New Web-App
Mali
The farm Mali-malo in Mali with a total surface to be irrigated of 4 Hectares and an irrigation source yield of 1000 m3/h shall be irrigated by Tank System
The average daily solar irradiation in March is 6 kWh/m². See here how big a pump must be for a static head of 125m (!!) and a pipeline diameter of 85 mm (!!!) and what type of solar panels this farmer needs…