Modeling and assessing agro-hydrological processes and irrigation water saving in the middle Heihe River basin

Water use conflicts between agriculture and ecosystem have become a more severe and acute problem in the Heihe River basin (HRB). Excessive irrigation water use in the middle oasis of the HRB has caused gradual deterioration of water quality and eco-environment both in middle and lower HRB. The urgent issue is to make a quantitative analysis and an improvement of irrigation water use in middle oasis. In this paper, distributed agro-hydrological...