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The Territory - EDIA,S.A.

shortage of rainfall has been one of the main limitations on the development and has stood in the way of the modernisation of and sustainability of the public supply. Project is a structural instrument that gives rise to a diversified, sustained series of activities in a process of sustained integration.

Alqueva - visit the iconic Alentejo lake and dam

Alentejo 17,940 Views. , largest artificial lake in Europe, a vast mass of reaching as far as the eye can see, surrounded by an enviable natural landscape. Small islets, small pieces of land that become a dream in something bigger. People in Portugal, specially in the south, are truly proud of tranquility ...

(PDF) Trends in water quality in the Alqueva irrigation area and its ...

FAO and Drainage Paper No. 29, Revision 1, Food and Organization of the United Nations, Rome. EDIA, 2017. Anuário Agrícola de 2017, Empresa de Desenvolvimento e ...

(PDF) Alqueva dam and irrigation project: hard lessons learned from ...

and project: hard lessons learned from good and bad assessment practice

(PDF) Perceived Impact of the Alqueva Dam on Regional Tourism ...

With the onset of the which is expected to bring to 120.000 hectares by 2015, the montado is under pressure and a large parcel of it will eventually disappear as a consequence of the shift in agricultural practice, consequently affecting the touristic value of the (Arvela et al., 2012; Marujo, 2005).

Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia

Australia, the evidence of the impact of activity on the wider regional communities is ambiguous. Grafton and Wheeler ( 2018) and Hughes et al. ( 2020) both found that measures to subsidize infrastructure improvements had a positive impact on irrigators. One would be surprised if changes in supply did not affect ...

(PDF) Perceived Impact of the Alqueva Dam on Regional ... - ResearchGate

Impacts of . Report of the NeWater project ... and supply domestic and purposes [4,5]. ... agro-pastoral are managed by committees ...

Agriculture using 75% of water in Portugal - The Portugal News

agricultural sector is responsible for 75 percent of the total used in Portugal, above the European Union average (24 percent) and world average (69 percent), due to irrigated crops. By TPN/Lusa, in News · 26 Mar 2021, 01:00 · 2 Comments. According to a study by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation:"In Portugal, the agricultural ...

ALQUEVA - uevora.pt pdf

a network that provides to 120,000 ha of land (EDIA 2015). At 250 km2 the reservoir is the largest surface reservoir in Europe (EDIA 2015). The main purpose of the project is to supply to 200,000 people in the , industry, tourism, and to generate hydroelectric energy (EDIA 2015). The ...

Alqueva - EDIA,S.A.

. Located in Alentejo, in southern Portugal, is a Multipurpose Project where the , built on the Guadiana river, is the source of a system of 69 and reservoirs. Centered on the reservoir, Europe's largest strategic reserve, with a total capacity of 4150 million cubic meters, Multipurpose ...

[PDF] Perceived Impact of the Alqueva Dam on Regional Tourism ...

Abstract The paper studies the impact of the Multi-Purpose Alentejo (Portugal), focusing on tourism development. In 2002, the originated the largest artificial lake in Europe and was widely believed to bring a great number of benefits for the by creating conditions for intensive irrigated farming and enhancing a new tourism destination in interior ...

Impacts of Large-Scale Irrigation and Climate Change on the ...

reservoir and project is one of the largest strategic reservoirs in Western Europe and the AIS's primary source. The closure of the 2002 resulted in significant changes to the land use and agricultural practices, shifting from predominantly rainfed dry cereals to intensively irrigated olive and almond orchards.

Alqueva dam and irrigation project: hard lessons learned from good and ... pdf

and project involves the largest reservoir in Europe and an network to cover 110000ha of land, with three main goals: , regional development and promotion of . This paper reviews the major impacts and assessment procedures of the project.

Alqueva Multipurpose Project - EDIA,S.A.

is blazing trails to . These are trails that lead to the public mains, by reinforcing five that supply to around 200,000 inhabitants, for , with an equipped area of around 120,000 hectares, for industry, for generating clean energy and for tourism. Multipurpose Project comprises the ...

The impacts of Alqueva Dam in the development of the region

impacts of the will increase in future 67.0 Most of the people in my community take benefits from the 26.8 The supply is better after the construction of the 16.5

(PDF) Efficient use of water and nutrients in irrigated cropping ...

recent years, with the network of the Multi-Purpose Development Project (EFMA -Emprendimanto de Fins Múltiplos de ), farmers in Alentejo are more and more resorting ...

Water | Free Full-Text | Effects of a Large Irrigation Reservoir on ...

Dammed rivers have unnatural stream flows, disrupted sediment dynamics, and rearranged geomorphologic settings. Consequently, fluvial biota experiences disturbed functioning in the novel ecosystems. The case study is the large reservoir Guadiana River, Southern Iberia. The study area was divided into three zones: upstream and downstream of the and reservoir. For each ...

Multiobjective Irrigation Model: Alqueva River Basin Application

Multiobjective Model: River Basin Application. Helga Pereira, J. Figueira, R. Marques. Published in Journal of and… 1 July 2019. Engineering, Environmental Science. AbstractThis paper aims to solve an optimal resources allocation problem applied to River Basin system in Portugal.

(PDF) Alqueva dam and irrigation project: hard lessons learned from ...

and project involves the largest reservoir in Europe and an network to cover 110000ha of land, with three main goals: , regional development and promotion of . This paper reviews the major impacts and assessment procedures of the project.

Alqueva Dam | Secil Group

construction objectives were related to electricity production for the creation of an system which would cover the whole of the Alentejo . Therefore, this Secil project boosted the development of by increasing the number of jobs and reducing, respectively, the problem of land abandonment. 1 / 4 ...

Impacts of Alqueva Dam in the region - ResearchGate

IMPACTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE Report of the NeWater project - New Approaches to Adaptive under Uncertainty

Alqueva dam in the Guadiana River Basin—Past and future of illusive ...

historical need for storage in the Guadiana Basin led to the construction of a large scale , creating a reservoir with capacity of 4,000 million m 3 and maximum flooded area of 25,000 ha. The is a large multi‐purpose project (, hydro‐electricity production, domestic supply, recreation) that answers to the old expectations of storage in the dry ...

Alqueva Dam - Wikipedia

is an arch and the centrepiece of the Multipurpose Project. It impounds the River Guadiana, on the border of Beja and Évora Districts in the south of Portugal. The takes its name from the town of its right bank. It creates a large reservoir with an inter-annual regulation capacity from which may be distributed throughout the .