The research was conducted at Irrigated Perimeter of Curu Pentecoste, in an area of family cultivation and aimed to obtain the efficiency of use of water and potassium in the watermelon crop with reuse of irrigation water in furrow irrigation system. A completely randomized block design with split plots and four replications was used. Five irrigation levels were applied to the plots: 25, 75, 100, 150 and 200% of maximum crop evapotranspiration. The following levels of potassium fertilization were applied in the subplots: 0, 30, 60 and 120 kg ha-1 of K2O. The potassium level associated with the recommendation of soil analysis (60 kg ha-1) provided the highest average efficiency of water use and resulted in an increase of 180.6 kg ha-1 of watermelon for each kg ha-1 of K2O applied.
Citrullus lanatus; productivity; potassium compost
