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1 Irrigation Association of Australia. 1992. National Irrigation Convention Proceedings: Technology for Improved Irrigation Efficiency and Productivity. Melbourne, Australia: Irrigation Association of Australia. 264p.
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3 Funder, M.; Bustamante, R.; Cossio, V.; Huong, P. T. M.; van Koppen, Barbara; Mweemba, C.; Nyambe, I.; Phuong, L. T. T.; Skielboe, T. 2012. Strategies of the poorest in local water conflict and cooperation – evidence from Vietnam, Bolivia and Zambia. Water Alternatives, 5(1): 20-36.
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Media stories often speak of a future dominated by large-scale water wars. Rather less attention has been paid to the way water conflicts play out at local levels and form part of people’s everyday lives. Based on case study studies from Vietnam, Bolivia and Zambia, this paper examines the strategies of poor households in local water conflicts. It is shown how such households may not only engage actively in collaborative water management but may also apply risk aversion strategies when faced with powerful adversaries in conflict situations. It is further shown how dependency relations between poor and wealthy households can reduce the scope of action for the poor in water conflicts. As a result, poor households can be forced to abstain from defending their water resources in order to maintain socio-economic and political ties with the very same households that oppose them in water conflicts. The paper concludes by briefly discussing how the poorest can be supported in local water conflicts. This includes ensuring that alternative spaces for expressing grievances exist and are accessible; facilitating that water sharing agreements and rights are clearly stipulated and monitored; and working beyond water governance to reduce the socio-economic dependency-relations of poor households.
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It has been suggested that the collective action needed for integrated water management at larger spatial scales could be more effective and sustainable if it were built, bottom-up, on the nested arrangements by which local communities have managed their water resources at homestead, plot, village and sub-catchment levels. The upscaling of such arrangements requires an understanding of why they emerge, how they function and how they are sustained. This paper presents a case study of local level water institutions in Bangalala village in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania. Unlike most research on collective action in which water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity are seen as risks to collective action, this study looked at how they dynamically interact and give rise to interdependencies between water users which facilitate coordination and collective action. The findings are confined to relatively small spatial and social scales, involving irrigators from one village. In such situations there may be inhibitions to unilateral action due to social and peer pressure. Spatial or social proximity may thus be a necessary condition for collective action in water asymmetrical situations to emerge. This points to the need for further research, namely to describe and analyse the dynamics engendered by water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity at larger spatial scales.
5 Chellaney, B. 2011. Water: Asia's new battleground. Washington, DC, USA: Georgetown University Press. 386p.
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6 Ojendal, J.; Hansson, S.; Hellberg, S. (Eds.) 2012. Politics and development in a transboundary watershed: the case of the Lower Mekong Basin. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 211p.
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7 Aureli, A. 2011. UNESCO inventory of transboundary aquifers: managing shared groundwater resources wisely. In Findikakis, A. N.; Sato, K. Groundwater management practices. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press - Balkema. pp.367-386. (IAHR Monograph)
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8 Gourdji, S.; Knowlton, C.; Platt, K.; Wiley, M. J. 2008. Modeling the interlinking of the Ganges River: simulated changes in flow. In Mirza, M. M. Q.; Ahmed, A. U.; Ahmad, Q. K. (Eds.). Interlinking of rivers in India: issues and concerns. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.91-106.
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9 Islam, M. R.; Alam, S. 2008. Interlinking of rivers in India: international and regional legal aspects. In Mirza, M. M. Q.; Ahmed, A. U.; Ahmad, Q. K. (Eds.). Interlinking of rivers in India: issues and concerns. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.219-233.
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10 Brichieri-Colombi, S. 2008. Could Bangladesh benefit from the river linking project? In Mirza, M. M. Q.; Ahmed, A. U.; Ahmad, Q. K. (Eds.). Interlinking of rivers in India: issues and concerns. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.261-274.
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12 Mathur, G. N.; Chawla, A. S. (Eds.) 2005. Water for sustainable development - towards innovative solutions: proceedings of the XII World Water Congress, New Delhi, India, 22-25 November 2005. Vol. 1. New Delhi, India: Central Board of Irrigation and Power; Montpellier, France: International Water Resources Association (IWRA). 337p.
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13 Mathur, G. N.; Chawla, A. S. (Eds.) 2005. Water for sustainable development - towards innovative solutions: Abstracts of the XII World Water Congress, New Delhi, India, 22-25 November 2005. New Delhi, India: Central Board of Irrigation and Power; Montpellier, France: International Water Resources Association (IWRA). 182p.
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14 Komakech, C. H. 2013. Emergence and evolution of endogenous water institutions in an African river basin: local water governance and state intervention in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania. PhD thesis. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press - Balkema. 234p.
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This research was undertaken as part of the Smallholder System Innovations in Integrated Watershed Management (SSI) programme funded by the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO), the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Netherlands, Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
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16 Wegerich, Kai; Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Kabilov, Firdavs; Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon. 2013. Meso-level cooperation on transboundary tributaries and infrastructure in the Ferghana Valley. In Stucki, V.; Wegerich, Kai; Rahaman, M. M.; Varis, O. (Eds.). Water and security in Central Asia: solving a Rubik's Cube. London, UK: Routledge. pp.131-149. (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance)
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The river basin management approach in the Syr Darya basin fragmented after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. However, this approach had already created dependencies between riparian states such as transboundary water control infrastructure. At the national level, these states hardly cooperate, but at the province and district level, especially in the Ferghana Valley, which is shared by Kyrgyzstan., Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, cooperation continues. This paper analyzes transboundary cooperation in the Ferghana Valley. On the periphery, conflict and cooperation still take place on both water management infrastructure and water sharing. The greatest hindrance to cooperation- border control -is outside the realm at water management, but is key given the property rights to water management infrastructure in the neighboring riparian states.
17 Libert, B.; Lipponen, A. 2013. Challenges and opportunities for transboundary water cooperation in Central Asia: findings from UNECE's [United Nations Economic Commission for Europe] regional assessment and project work. In Stucki, V.; Wegerich, Kai; Rahaman, M. M.; Varis, O. (Eds.). Water and security in Central Asia: solving a Rubik's Cube. London, UK: Routledge. pp.171-182. (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance)
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18 Cecchi, P. (Ed.) 2007. L’eau en partage: les petits barrages de Cote d’Ivoire. In French. [Water sharing: small dams in Cote d'Ivoire]. Paris, France: Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)
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While conflict and cooperation in Central Asia are mainly focused on the larger basins (Amu and Syr Darya) and the implementation of the agreement reached directly after independence (1991), here an analysis of the history of water-sharing agreements in the Isfara Basin is presented. The paper reveals that there have been fierce negotiations and renegotiations even during the Soviet Union period between the Central Asian riparian republics; agreement was reached mainly though engineering solutions that brought more water to the basin. The paper highlights that although water-sharing agreements were reached early on, the technical capability of implementing these agreements was lacking. Similarly, even after independence, agreements had been reached but lack of water control hindered their implementation.
20 Kane-Potaka, Joanna. 2013. The story behind the success: ten case studies identifying what led to uptake of research for development. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) 100p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2013.208]
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