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Optimal Maintenance in Irrigation
Abstract This article asks and addresses thequestion ``what is `optimal' maintenance inirrigation.'' It examines alternativedefinitions of irrigation maintenance andexplores pathways of system deteriorationunder alternative input levels. It thendefines maintenance as a service, where thefunctions of arranging, providing, payingfor, and using the service are considered,and discusses the arrangements andrelationships necessary to provide thisservice. Key to this approach is theconcept of maintaining a specified level ofservice – a concept drawn from the assetmanagement approach to systems maintenance. A contingency matrix is developed whichdefines basic maintenance strategies underdifferent levels of cost and risk. Thepaper concludes that optimality ofirrigation system maintenance is somethingwhich cannot be defined on technicalgrounds, or economic ones, or even oninstitutional grounds alone. Rather it mustbe defined as a process operating within aset of framework conditions and technical,economic and institutional constraints.
Optimal Maintenance in Irrigation
Abstract This article asks and addresses thequestion ``what is `optimal' maintenance inirrigation.'' It examines alternativedefinitions of irrigation maintenance andexplores pathways of system deteriorationunder alternative input levels. It thendefines maintenance as a service, where thefunctions of arranging, providing, payingfor, and using the service are considered,and discusses the arrangements andrelationships necessary to provide thisservice. Key to this approach is theconcept of maintaining a specified level ofservice – a concept drawn from the assetmanagement approach to systems maintenance. A contingency matrix is developed whichdefines basic maintenance strategies underdifferent levels of cost and risk. Thepaper concludes that optimality ofirrigation system maintenance is somethingwhich cannot be defined on technicalgrounds, or economic ones, or even oninstitutional grounds alone. Rather it mustbe defined as a process operating within aset of framework conditions and technical,economic and institutional constraints.
Optimal Maintenance in Irrigation
Svendsen, Mark (author) / Huppert, Walter (author)
2003
Article (Journal)
English
Irrigation engineering and maintenance
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