Improvement of the irrigation performance in Water Users Associations integrating data envelopment analysis and multi-regression models

Demetrio Antonio Zema, Angelo Nicotra, Luciano Mateos and Santo Marcello Zimbone

Agricultural Water Management, 2018, vol. 205, issue C, 38-49

Abstract: Irrigation performance assessment is particularly important in the Water Users Associations (WUAs) operating in Calabria (Southern Italy), where collective irrigation service suffers from poor performances both from an operative and economic point of view. For many years Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been proposed for the diagnosis of Water Users Association performance; however, the number and type of related performance indicators must be selected with caution to avoid misleading and unrealistic results.

Keywords: Collective irrigation; Performance indicators; Principal component regression; Service efficiency; Improved irrigation scenario; Cost of the irrigation service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2018.04.032

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