Why is Correct Agricultural Water Management Necessarily a Prerequisites in Water Shortage Regions?

This study was carried out to investigate the significance of proper water management in water-stressed agricultural areas such as Turkey's Konya Basin. For that purpose, agro as well as the water potential of Konya plain was analyzed in regard to water management. As results, water resources particularly groundwater, are not used sustainably since there is dramatic groundwater depletion in most parts of the region. The reasons are the widening of cultivated lands in the favor of crops having grand water consumption and areas brought into irrigation with no care. In accordance with our previous research findings in our region, the following solutions could be addressed: crop pattern redesigned in accordance with current water resources for example crop pattern of cereals could be increased, landowners producing low water consuming crops must be subsidized, sprinkler or drip irrigation systems should be used more, water charges should be volume-basis, and farmers should be trained about correct and deficit irrigation with visual materials.