[Departement_IRSTEA]RE [TR1_IRSTEA]GES / ENVIRRI [Encadrant_IRSTEA]Mailhol, J.C.The Gharb plane (Morocco) suffers from water excess during winter and from water deficit during summer. This state of fact explains the low profitability resulting from the irrigation investment efforts realized by government. The originality of this work results from the combination of two objectives devoted to the furrow system. The first consists on the evacuation of the surface water excess during winter, and the second on the water supply to crops from the beginning of spring. Two objectives are assigned to this work: (i) evaluation of hydraulic and agronomic performances of surface drainage and (ii) evaluation of the impact of water excess on sugar beet. T...