Land and water resource suitability assessment plays an important role in maintaining and developing land and water use on a spatial basis. This paper identifies the evaluation of environment on land suitability for irrigation intensification. The research project was carried out in Andasa watershed river catchments, around southern Bahir Dar city, north western Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to assess irrigation water management on environmental impacts on river catchments of Andasa watershed for irrigation development. Data were collected from 100 households and experts of agricultural research institute. Different closed and open ended structured questionnaires were prepared to collect the data from the samples. As a result of, demographic, socio-economic, and institutional factors also hindered farmer’s irrigation water management utilization of the potential. In the bivariate and Logistic Regression analysis results, Sex, family size, and irrigation technology user variables were highly significant determinant variables at P< 0.01 whereas level of education and accesses of training are moderately significant at P<0.05, while the remaining variables were not significant due to different constraints. Among all independent variables entered in Logistic Regression model, the Wald value respondents’ of irrigation a technology user is the highest value 16.508. The findings can be to help water and land use planning decisions. In conclusion, irrigation was the cause of environmental change from this figure can be increased by using subsurface irrigation methods (sprinkler and drip) irrigation.

Irrigation, Agriculture, Management and Environment