Abstract
In Japanese rural areas, traditional irrigation facilities have been constructed mainly for rice cultivation. These facilities are considered to be supply-driven system from water restriction or time constraint. Consumer, that is, farmers have been recognized it as a prerequisite, then they have been promoting the agricultural production. However, diverse functions are being desired to irrigation facilities in recent years, not only conventional water supply. Those include reflection of the farmers’ various needs and provision of hydrophilic environment as typical examples. Thus agricultural water supply should be regarded as irrigation services and it is needed to consider requirements for providing desired services as well as efficient water distribution. Therefore, we made case study at Aichi-Yosui (Aichi Waterworks, Japan).
