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1 Bhattarai, M.; Pant, D.; Mishra, V. S.; Devkota, H.; Pun, S.; Kayastha, R. N.; Molden, D. 2002. Integrated development and management of water resources for productive and equitable use in the Indrawati River Basin, Nepal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). x, 65p. (IWMI Working Paper 041) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.177]
River basin development ; Water transfer ; Water rights ; Water supply ; Water demand ; Water balance ; Environmental effects ; Social aspects ; Development projects ; Non-governmental organizations ; Villages ; Water user associations ; Conflict ; Farmers / Nepal / Indrawati River Basin / Melamchi River / Kathmandu
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G726 BHA Record No: H030393)
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2 Pant, Dhruba; Samad, Madar. 2006. Stakeholder consultation and water governance: Lessons from the Melamchi Water Transfer Project in Nepal. In CPWF Decision Support System Workshop, Ethiopia, 23-26 January 2006. 19p.
Water supply ; Water transfer ; Development projects ; River basins ; Water rights ; Water use ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Farmer managed irrigation systems / Nepal / Kathmandu Valley / Melamchi River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G726 PAN Record No: H039796)
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3 Pant, Dhruba; Bhattarai, M.; Basnet, G. 2008. Implications of bulk water transfer on local water management institutions: a case study of the Melamchi Water Supply Project in Nepal. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 27p. (CAPRi Working Paper 78)
Water supply ; Development projects ; River basins ; Drinking water ; Water transfer ; Water rights ; Legislation ; Institutions ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Compensation ; Case studies / Nepal / Kathmandu Valley / Melamchi River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041304)
To mitigate a drinking water crisis in Kathmandu valley, the Government of Nepal initiated the Melamchi Water Supply Project in 1997, which will divert water from the Melamchi River to Kathmandu city’s water supply network. In the first phase, the Project will divert 170,000 cubic meters of water per day (at the rate of 1.97M3/sec), which will be tripled using the same infrastructure as city water demand increases in the future. The large scale transfer of water would have far reaching implications in both water supplying and receiving basins. This paper analyzes some of the major changes related to local water management and socioeconomics brought about by the Project and in particular the changes in the local water management institutions in the Melamchi basin. Our study shows that traditional informal water management institutions were effective in regulating present water use practices in the water supplying basin, but the situation will vastly change because of the scale of water transfer, and power inequity between the organized public sector on one side and dispersed and unorganized marginal water users on the other. The small scale of water usage and multiple informal arrangements at the local level have made it difficult for the local users and institutions to collectively bargain and negotiate with the central water transfer authority for a fair share of project benefits and compensation for the losses imposed on them. The process and scale of project compensation for economic losses and equity over resource use are at the heart of the concerns and debates about the Melamchi water transfer decision. The Project has planned for a one- time compensation package of about US$18 million for development infrastructure related investments and is planning to share about one percent of revenue generated from water use in the city with the supplying basin. The main issues here are what forms of water sharing governance, compensation packages, and water rights structures would emerge in relation to the project implementation and whether they are socially acceptable ensuring equitable distribution of the project benefits to all basin communities. In addition, these issues of the Melamchi project discussed in this paper are equally pertinent to other places where rural to urban water transfer projects are under discussion.
4 Gurung, Pabitra; Bharati, Luna. 2012. Downstream impacts of the Melamchi Inter-Basin Water Transfer Plan (MIWTP) under current and future climate change projections. Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment, April:23-29. (Special issue on "Proceedings of National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Nepal" with contributions by IWMI authors).
Downstream ; River basins ; Drinking water ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Water transfer ; Climate change ; Simulation models ; Wet season ; Dry season ; Crop management ; Water requirements ; Irrigation / Nepal / Kathmandu / Koshi River Basin / Melamchi River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044828)
The Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) is designed to minimize the shortage of drinking water in the Kathmandu valley. Although the project was supposed to be completed by 2008, due to various problems, it is still diffi cult to forecast the exact date of completion. This paper quantifi es the downstream effects of diverting water from the Melamchi (Stage-I),Yangri (Stage-II) and Larke (Stage-III) rivers under current as well as future climate scenarios. The Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used in the analysis. Result shows that in the Stage-I water transfer plan, average infl ow reduction in the immediate downstream sub-basin in the dry and wet seasons are 36% and 7% respectively, where as in Stage-II the infl ow reductions are 38% for the dry season and 8% for the wet season. In Stage-III, infl ow reductions are 38% in the dry season and 7% in the wet season. The impact of the water transfer schemes on various changes in water management within the Melamchi River irrigation command area was also tested. BUDGET (soil, water and salt balance) model was used to quantify crop water requirement of Melamchi River command area when the irrigated area is increased and the cropping pattern is changed. Simulation results of crop water requirement in intensive water use conditions show that present Melamchi River command area can be increased by 2.2 times under current climate projection, whereas the area can be increased 1.4 times in 2030s and by 2.0 times in 2050s.
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