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1 Tingsanchali, T.; Loof, R.; Jha, R. 1995. Water resources utilization in the Chao Phraya River Basin with minimum water shortage and environmental hazards. Water Resources Journal, 184:90-96.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H017947)
2 Hayase, Y. 1999. Runoff analysis of paddy field based watersheds. In Mizutani, M.; Hasegawa, S.; Koga, K.; Goto, A.; Murty, V. V. N. (Eds.), Advanced paddy field engineering. Tokyo, Japan: Shinzan-Sha Sci. & Tech. Publishing Co., Ltd. pp.111-133.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 633.18 G696 MIZ Record No: H024373)
3 Molle, Francois. 2005. The closure of the Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand: its causes, consequences, and policy implications. In Shivakoti, G. P.; Vermillion, D. L.; Lam, W.-F.; Ostrom, E.; Pradhan, U.; Yoder, R. (Eds.). Asian irrigation in transition: responding to challenges. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications India. pp.206-225.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G570 SHI Record No: H031443)
4 UN World Water Assessment Programme. 2003. Water for people, water for life: The United Nations world waters development report. New York: NY, USA: UNESCO-WWAP; Berghahn Books. xxiii, 576p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 UN Record No: H032220)
5 Takase, K. 2004. Sustainable agriculture and efficient water use in Monsoon Asia. In Seng, V.; Craswell, E.; Fukai, S.; Fischer, K. (Eds.), Water in agriculture: Proceedings of a CARDI International Conference “Research on Water in Agricultural Production in Asia for the 21st Century” Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 25-28 November 2003. Canberra, Australia: ACIAR. pp.22-31.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.2 G000 SEN Record No: H034944)
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7 Molle, F. 2002. To price or not to price?: Thailand and the stigma of “free water” Paper presented at the Conference on Irrigation Water Policies: Micro and Macro Considerations, 15-17 June 2002, Agadir, Morocco. 20p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G750 MOL Record No: H031442)
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8 Molle, Francois. 2005. Elements for a political ecology of river basins development: The case of the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand. Paper presented at the 4th Conference of the International Water History Association, Paris, December 2005. 20p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G750 MOL Record No: H039322)
9 Molle, Francois. 2006. River basin development and management: Scales, power, discourses. In Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers RGS-IBG Annual International Conference August, 2006, London, UK. 18p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 577.64 G750 MOL Record No: H039837)
10 Molle, François; Floch, Philippe. 2008. How did we get there?: coping with irrigation water scarcity and its definition. In Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, F.; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S. Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.). Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.3. Water benefits sharing for poverty alleviation and conflict management; Drivers and processes of change. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.112-115.
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In this paper, an attempt has been made to predict river flow in meso-scale basins using the general circulation model generated atmospheric forcings by coupling a land surface model and a river routing model. Several versions of the variable infiltration capacity model were used as the land surface model, including one that incorporates a double parabolic curve to describe the infiltration capacity of the soil. In the runoff routing model, which uses a much finer grid, backward distribution of observed river discharges to upstream cells as well as flood plain inundation are introduced. The proposed models and the procedures are applied to two major river basins in the Southeast Asian Region—the Mekong and the Chao Phraya. The Mekong is an international river that runs through China, Myanmar, Lao, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and the Chao Phraya River is contained within Thailand. Despite the limitations in the data availability, the results of daily river discharge predictions seem to be reasonable in the scale concerned.
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Although farmers are often seen as wasting water and getting a disproportionate share of water, irrigation is losing out in the competition for water with other sectors. In cases of drought, water restrictions are overwhelmingly imposed on irrigation while other activities and domestic supply are only affected in cases of very severe shortage. All over the world, farmers have been responding to the challenge posed by both short- and long-term declining water allocations in many creative ways, but these responses have often been overlooked by policy makers. This paper examines how farmers have adapted to water scarcity in six different river basins of Asia and the Middle East. It inventories the different types of adjustments observed and shows not only their effectiveness in offsetting the drop in supply but also their costs to farmers and to the environment and their contribution to basin closure. The conclusion calls for a better recognition of the efforts made by the irrigation sector to respond to water challenges and of its implications in terms of reduced scope for efficiency gains in the irrigation sector.
13 Pavelic, Paul; Srisuk, K.; Saraphirom, P.; Nadee, S.; Pholkern, K.; Chusanathas, S.; Munyou, S.; Tangsutthinon, T.; Intarasut, T.; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2012. Balancing-out floods and droughts: opportunities to utilize floodwater harvesting and groundwater storage for agricultural development in Thailand. Journal of Hydrology, 470-471:55-64. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.08.007]
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Thailand’s naturally high seasonal endowment of water resources brings with it the regularly experienced problems associated with floods during the wet season and droughts during the dry season. Downstream-focused engineering solutions that address flooding are vital, but do not necessarily capture the potential for basin-scale improvements to water security, food production and livelihood enhancement. Managed aquifer recharge, typically applied to annual harvesting of wet season flows in dry climates, can also be applied to capture, store and recover episodic extreme flood events in humid environments. In the Chao Phraya River Basin it is estimated that surplus flows recorded downstream above a critical threshold could be harvested and recharged within the shallow alluvial aquifers in a distributed manner upstream of flood prone areas without significantly impacting existing large-medium storages or the Gulf and deltaic ecosystems. Capturing peak flows approximately 1 year in four by dedicating around 200 km2 of land to groundwater recharge would reduce the magnitude of flooding and socio-economic impacts and generate around USD 250 M/year in export earnings for smallholder rainfed farmers through dry season cash cropping without unduly compromising the demands of existing water users. It is proposed that farmers in upstream riparian zones be co-opted as flood harvesters and thus contribute to improved floodwater management through simple water management technologies that enable agricultural lands to be put to higher productive use. Local-scale site suitability and technical performance assessments along with revised governance structures would be required. It is expected that such an approach would also be applicable to other coastal-discharging basins in Thailand and potentially throughout the Asia region.
14 Barlund, I.; da Costa, M. P.; Modak, P.; Mensah, A. M.; Gordon, C.; Babel, M. S.; Dickens, Chris; Jomaa, S.; Ollesch, G.; Swaney, D.; Alcamo, J. 2016. Water pollution in river basins. In United Nations Environment Programme. A snapshot of the world’s water quality: towards a global assessment. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme. pp.49-80.
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This study examines the recent quantitative characteristics of dry season water allocation in the Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand. Previous studies have focused on inequitable allocation, where the highest priority is given to the domestic water sector and uneven irrigation water variability exists among projects in the delta. This study uses a statistical test and panel data analysis to confirm that the characteristics highlighted in previous studies remain accurate, and it discusses the source of these characteristics in order to understand the issues in water allocation in the Chao Phraya River delta.
16 Molle, Francois. 2002. The closure of the Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand: its causes, consequences and policy implications. Paper presented at the Conference on Asian Irrigation in Transition - Responding to the Challenges Ahead, Bangkok, Thailand, 22-23 April 2002. 16p.
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