Targeting Investments in Medium to Large Scale Irrigation Schemes, IMWI

In this presentation, Dr. Simon Langan presented proper guidance to identify areas where investments are important. He showed how the organization and government functions contribute to water service delivery. He also discussed the issues of functions and the mechanisms to promote water services delivery, the officials in irrigation organization needs information about asset and performance of systems.

Simon Langan

Dr. Simon Langan is the director for digital innovation and IWMI’s country manager in Sri Lanka. He is an agricultural water management specialist with catchment/watershed management from field and modeling perspectives. Before joining IWMI, he was the director of the water program (water futures and solutions) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the principal researcher and head of East Africa and Nile Basin office of IWMI in Ethiopia.

Karthikeyan Matheswaran

Karthikeyan currently works as a researcher – Water productivity in IWMI. He has 11 years of research and working experience in applying remote sensing and hydrological modeling tools for sustainable water resources management in Asia and Africa. Current interests include monitoring crop water use from remote sensing, assessing water productivity gaps in irrigation schemes across Asia and Africa, designing capacity-building programs on water productivity, and co-developing demand driven tools using WaPOR data for improving productivity in Africa and Middle east.