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1 Bajwa, R. 2004. Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture: a case study on NRSP. In Jehangir, Waqar A.; Hussain, Intizar (Eds.). Poverty reduction through improved agricultural water management. Proceedings of the Workshop on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan, 23-24 April 2003. Lahore, Pakistan: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.261-269.
Irrigated farming ; Case studies ; Social behaviour ; Irrigation Channels ; Watercourses ; Irrigation methods ; Groundwater / Pakistan / Baluchistan / Karez
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G730 JEH Record No: H043774)
Declining growth rates, fiscal imbalances and weak social security nets have led to the worsening of the poverty situation in Pakistan, with more people experiencing both absolute and relative poverty. The National Rural Support Program (NRSP) forms a bridge between the rural poor, the majority of whom depend entirely on agriculture for subsistence and income, and the Government agencies and departments responsible for water-delivery infrastructure and management. This paper gives a list of NRSP’s interventions in the water sector, all of which are focused on minimizing water losses and improving agricultural productivity for the rural poor. The paper presents the case for ‘social mobilisation’ as a critically important tool in the establishment of efficient and sustainable responses to water problems. Case studies provide examples of the effectiveness of these interventions.
2 Akbar, S.; Abbas, A.; Hanjra, M. A.; Khan, S. 2013. Structured analysis of seepage losses in irrigation supply channels for cost-effective investments: case studies from the Southern Murray-Darling Basin of Australia. Irrigation Science, 31(1):11-25. [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00271-011-0290-4]
Irrigation systems ; Irrigation channels ; Irrigated sites ; Soil texture ; Seepage loss ; Economic aspects ; Investment ; River basins ; Water conservation ; Groundwater ; Catchment areas ; Wastewater treatment / Australia / Murray-Darling Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045578)
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Much of inland Australia has been in perpetual drought since 1997 except during 2010 when above average rainfall occurred. It has been the worst drought since 1788 when European settlement began. Water scarcity poses a serious threat to the sustainability of the irrigated agriculture in major irrigation systems across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). There is a need for water-saving measures and a structured approach to assess water loss in earthen supply channels. This paper presents such an approach to assess and reduce seepage losses for improving irrigation efficiencies. Main elements of this approach are the following: field measurements, hydrologic modelling, potential options for seepage reduction, economic analysis and financing water-saving investments. Using data from two irrigation systems in the southern MDB, a case is made for reducing seepage water losses in irrigation supply channels in a cost-effective manner using low-cost technologies. Increasing the level of security for investments in water-saving programs provides incentives to key stakeholders to achieve water-saving targets. Considering the value of water recovered from reducing seepage loss at irrigation system level, this study demonstrates how reducing just one component (seepage) from the total water losses in irrigation systems can help improve water supplies as well as the environmental flows. Potential options for financing infrastructure improvement for saving irrigation water are proposed and discussed.
3 Sharma, A. 2019. Giving water its place: artificial glaciers and the politics of place in a high-altitude Himalayan village. Water Alternatives, 12(3):993-1016.
Water resources ; Glaciers ; Political aspects ; Villages ; Legal aspects ; Boundaries ; Sustainable development ; Irrigation channels ; Watersheds ; Technology ; Economic aspects ; Investment ; Social aspects / India / Himalayan Region / Ladakh / Phyang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049351)
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Jeff Malpas' concept of place as a bounded, open, and emergent structure is used in this article to understand the reasons for the differences in villagers' responses to 'artificial glaciers', or 'Ice stupas', built in two different places in the Himalayan village of Phyang, in Ladakh. Using archival material, geographic information system tools and ethnographic research, this study reveals how Phyang as a village is constituted by interacting ecological-technical, socio-symbolic, and bureaucratic-legal boundaries. It is observed that technologies such as land revenue records, and cadastral maps, introduced in previous processes of imperialist state formation, continue to inform water politics in this Himalayan region. It is further demonstrated how this politics is framed within the village of Phyang, but also shifts its boundaries to create the physical, discursive, and symbolic space necessary for projects like the Ice stupa to emerge. By examining the conflict through the lens of place, it is possible to identify the competing discursive frames employed by different stakeholders to legitimise their own projects for developing the arid area (or Thang) where the contested Ice stupa is located. Such an analysis allows critical water scholarship to understand both how places allow hydrosocial relationships to emerge, and how competing representations of place portray these relationships. Understanding the role of place in the constitution of hydrosocial relationships allows for a more nuanced appraisal of the challenges and opportunities inherent in negotiating development interventions aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change. It is also recommended that scholars studying primarily the institutional dimensions of community-managed resource regimes consider the impact on these institutions of technological artefacts such as the high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes used to construct the Ice stupas.
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