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1 Abdullaev, I.. 2000. Water use alternatives for the Bukhara Region of Uzbekistan and water distribution in the Zerafshan River Basin. In Mehrotra, R.; Soni, B.; Bhatia, K. K. S. (Eds.), Integrated water resources management for sustainable development - Volume 1. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology. pp.617-622.
River basins ; Water distribution ; Optimization ; Water use ; Irrigation water ; Arid zones ; Water pollution ; Canals ; Pumping ; Energy ; Drainage ; Wells / Uzbekistan / Bukhara Region / Zerafshan River Basin / Samarqand Region
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 MEH Record No: H028080)
2 Abdullaev, I.; Matyakubov, B. 2001. [The rational water use in the irrigated agriculture]. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: State Committee on Science and Technology. 123p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G782 ABD Record No: H029018)
3 Abdullaev, I.. 2002. Effects of large scale irrigation on drinking water quality in the Bukhara and Kashkadarya provinces of Uzbekistan. Water International, 27(2):266-270.
Irrigation water ; Water quality ; Irrigation effects ; Domestic water ; Water pollution ; Drainage / Uzbekistan
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER, IWMI 631.7.5 G782 ABD Record No: H030803)
4 Murray-Rust, H.; Abdullaev, I.; ul Hassan, M.; Horinkova, V. 2003. Water productivity in the Syr-Darya River Basin. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). v, 75p. (IWMI Research Report 067) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.072]
Water resource management ; Productivity ; Irrigation effects ; Institutional development ; Water allocation ; Irrigated farming ; Irrigation canals ; Water demand ; Irrigation requirements ; Water distribution ; Water delivery ; Crop yield ; River basins ; Water conservation / Central Asia / Aral Sea / Syr-Darya
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G000 MUR Record No: H032398)
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This report analyses water productivity and water-saving initiatives in the Syr-Darya river basin in Central Asia and presents institutional and political aspects of water management in the basin.
5 Horinkova, V.; Abdullaev, I.. 2003. Institutional aspects of water management in Central Asia: Water users associations. Water International, 28(2):237-245.
Water resource management ; Participatory management ; Irrigation management ; Water user associations ; Privatization / Central Asia / Tajikistan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan / Afghanistan / Kyrgyzstan / Kazakhstan
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H031589)
6 Abdullaev, I.; Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Manthrithilake, Herath; Jumaboev, Kahramon. 2009. Participatory water management at the main canal: a case from South Ferghana canal in Uzbekistan. Agricultural Water Management, 96(2):317-329.
Water resource management ; History ; Governance ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Irrigation management ; Irrigation canals ; Irrigation programs ; Surveys / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Ferghana Valley / South Ferghana canal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041661)
After the independence of Central Asian countries, many international projects have been launched to promote water users’ inclusion into the water management at different levels. The aim of such projects is to achieve sustainable water management through inclusion of interests of different groups on day-to-day water management. Although IWRM in Central Asia has been already promoted for a decade, there are only a few examples of the implementation in real life situations. The Integrated Water Resources Management in Ferghana Valley (IWRM FV) is a pilot project on implementing integrated water resources management elements at the main canal levels and below. The experience gained from IWRM FV project and lessons learnt could be useful for the national and international organizations for their future work on IWRM implementation at the different regions of Central Asia. IWRM FV project has been active since 2001 in the Ferghana Valley, one of the largest irrigated areas of Central Asia. The project has promoted and implemented participatory irrigation management for three pilot canals. This paper presents the process of implementation and some preliminary outcomes of the IWRM VF project.
7 Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Abdullaev, I.; Manthrithilake, Herath; Qureshi, Asad Sarwar; Jumaboev, Kahramon. 2009. Evaluating planning and delivery performance of water user associations (WUAs) in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan. Agricultural Water Management, 96(8):1259-1267. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.04.002]
Water user associations ; Performance evaluation ; Water distribution ; Equity ; Water allocation ; Irrigation requirements ; Planning ; Irrigation management ; Performance indexes / Central Asia / Kyrgyzstan / Osh Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042127)
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The primary objective of an irrigation organization is to provide efficient and effective management of water resources to achieve enhanced agricultural production. Performance assessment studies provide a tool to evaluate and promote this objective. The study examines the existing planning procedures and assesses irrigation performance of four Water User Associations (WUAs) located in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan. Performance was evaluated using indicators of adequacy, efficiency, ependability and equity. Indicators were calculated for each irrigation season over the period 2003 to 2007. In general, all WUAs were found to be strong in terms of adequacy and efficiency standards. However, performance with respect to dependability and equity was poor. The results suggest that more effort is needed to improve temporal uniformity and equity in water distribution. In order to achieve this, estimations of irrigation requirements by WUAmanagers needs to be improved and mechanisms eveloped to request water in quantities, which are needed to maintain equity across theWUAoutlets and among water users. The study concludes that the establishment of WUAs in Kyrgyzstan has helped to address the problem of water distribution and allocation among a large number of farmers. However, further training of farmers and managers is required to build their capacity to share water and ensure equity among users particularly during periods of less than optimal water supply. The findings of this research suggest that application of a pre-determined set of indicators can be a useful and cost effective tool to measure the performance of WUAs. This is particularly important for Central Asia where the performance of the recently established and state initiated WUAs to replace former collective farms is now a key element in future sustainable water management. The study identified uncertainties in the estimation of WUA water demands based on previousmethods and suggestsmore attention and care required in calculating water requirements.
8 Abdullaev, I.; Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Jumaboev, Kahramon; Manthrithilake, Herath. 2009. Adoption of integrated water resources management principles and its impacts: lessons from Ferghana Valley. Water International, 34(2):230-241. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060902843710]
Water resource management ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Canals ; Water delivery ; Irrigation water ; Governance ; Crop yield / Uzbekistan / Ferghana Valley / South Ferghana Canal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042130)
The Ferghana Valley Project, initiated in 2001, has promoted institutional change in the post-Soviet irrigation sector in this part of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. This paper presents the short-term (5-year) impacts of integrated water resources management project activities focused on water user participation in the South Ferghana Canal of Ferghana Province in Uzbekistan on irrigation water delivery and crop productivity. Irrigation performance assessment indicators indicate only slight improvements in water delivery and crop yields. Although water was important, larger changes in the agricultural sector of Uzbekistan dominated outcomes in this relatively short time span.
9 Abdullaev, I.; Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Manthrithilake, Herath; Jumaboev, Kahramon. 2009. Water user groups in Central Asia: emerging form of collective action in irrigation water management. Water Resources Management, 24(5):1029-1043. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-009-9484-4]
Water user associations ; Water users ; Collective action ; Collective farms ; Water resource management ; Water allocation ; Water distribution ; Irrigation water ; Legal aspects / Central Asia / Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan / Uzbekistan / Ferghana Valley / Amu Darya / Syr Darya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042270)
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This paper examines the recent emerging informal Water Users Groups (WUGs) on the Ferghana Valley for managing of the water at the former collective farm level and potential for strengthening of the weak Water Users Associations (WUAs) through replication of WUGs formation. Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have introduced reforms in different sectors including the water resources sectors. As a part of the water resources management reforms, Water Users Associations (WUAs) formation has implemented to manage water resources infrastructure and water distribution. WUGs have been emerging because WUAs have not been very efficient and effective due to their top-down implementation approach. In future, WUGs are very effective institutional mechanism of water resources management, and a useful support instrument to WUAs.
10 Abdullaev, I.; Rakhmatullaev, S.; Platonov, Alexander; Sorokin, D. 2012. Improving water governance in Central Asia through application of data management tools. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 69(1):151-168. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2011.641243]
Water management ; Organizations ; Water governance ; International waters ; Data management ; History ; Databases ; Remote sensing ; GIS ; Satellite imagery ; Irrigation systems ; Land use ; Land cover / Central Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044921)
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Contemporary water management decisions use many sources and forms of data. The paper discusses the implementation results of data management activities in the water sector carried out in five countries of the Central Asia region. Geoinformation systems, remote sensing tools and databases have been applied worldwide for improving water resources management with differing levels of success. Water management organisations, equipped with data management tools will have better capacities to adapt their decision-making in the changing availability and scarcity of water resources. Application of data management tools for improving collection, storage and processing of data and information are a first step towards improved water governance.
11 Abdullaev, I.; Noble, Andrew; Ul Hassan, M.; Platonov, Alexander. 2011. Improving water and land productivity of marginal farms in Central Asia: lessons from the "bright spots". In ICID. 21st Congress on Irrigation and Drainage: Water Productivity towards Food Security, Tehran, Iran, 15-23 October 2011. New Delhi, India: ICID. pp.11-36.
Water productivity ; Marginal farms ; Socioeconomic environment ; Indicators ; Irrigated sites ; Soil quality ; Statistical methods ; Farmers associations ; Crop production ; Economic aspects ; Land resources ; Land ownership ; Public policy / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044981)
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Land degradation of agricultural areas in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, specifically due to soil salinization, has resulted in significant declines in agricultural productivity. This study builds upon previous limited work on ‘Bright Spots’ by focusing on specific farming enterprises in the two target countries. The objective of this study was to identify factors that contributed to the enhanced performance of ‘Bright Spots’ in each of the target countries and based on this evaluation assess possible options for expansion and out-scaling of ‘Bright Spots’ to larger areas. The analysis confirms that while the resource endowment in terms of quality of land was almost identical for both the ‘Bright Spots’ and Control objects studied, the performance of the former was superior with respect to productivity and profitability. An analysis of biophysical and economic indicators of ‘Bright Spot’ farms in Uzbekistan indicated that the profitability of cotton production was predominantly dependent on inputs to the production system that had a significant impact on groundwater depth below the soil surface. In order to out-scale ‘Bright Spots’ innovative approaches in addressing existing knowledge gaps that link the products of research, and in this case ‘induce innovation’, with the majority of beneficiaries are required. This may take the form of creating linkages between farmers, researchers and markets through the formation of learning alliances. In addition, the development of enabling policies that address issues related to inequitable access to land and resources that would enable farmers to invest in rehabilitation is required. The provision of incentives which trigger private investment in rehabilitation would potentially stimulate individuals into addressing resource degradation. This would require access to financial instruments to enable investment to take place.
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