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The Project for Strengthening Water Management Transfer (SWMT Project) comprehensively analyzed and evaluated results of water measurement activities which had been continuously implemented at the three pilot sites since last year with Dr. Hiroyuki Taruya. Dr. Taruya is a Short Term Expert on analysis and evaluation of water distribution, who was dispatched to Egypt from 18 to 28 October, 2015.

It was the third time for Dr. Taruya to visit the SWMT Project and technically support the Project in implementing the activities above^[1].

Main objectives of his final mission were to technically support the Project in analyzing and evaluating results of water measurement activities which were implemented by the Project and to give his recommendations on water distribution in the pilot sites.

During his dispatch, Dr. Taruya visited all the three pilot sites with the project experts, technically checked the current situations of water distribution in each of the three Branch Canals (BCs) and inspected irrigation facilities there.

On 26 October, Dr. Taruya presented his activities to the counterparts (CPs) at the Central Department of Irrigation Advisory Service (CDIAS) of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI).

In his presentation, Dr. Taruya emphasized the importance of the water measurement activities to solve any problem on water distribution. He mentioned that it is a good outcome of the Project that the current situations on water distribution have been improved in Shubra Baloola of Middle Delta compared to the ones of last year by implementing a series of essential activities including meetings on effective solutions of water shortage at the tail-end of the BC, new trials of water distribution and Joint Repair Work based on results of water measurement activities in the last summer. Dr. Taruya continuously recommended that those same activities should be implemented in the other sites having the similar water problems.

Then the project staff became confident of those activities that they had done their best to implement and finally completed.

Although the remaining project period is not so long, the Project will make its utmost efforts to disseminate the outcomes of the water measurement activities to as many Egyptian people as possible, referring to recommendations by Dr. Taruya.

Activities by Dr. Taruya

Activities by Dr. Taruya

Activities by Dr. Taruya

Activities by Dr. Taruya