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1 Janakarajan, S. 2000. Competition, conflicts and crisis: An example of degraded groundwater regimes and feckless governance in South India. In GWP; Pakistan Water Partnership, Proceedings of Regional Groundwater Management Seminar, October 9-11, 2000, Islamabad. pp.37-56.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water use ; Conflict ; Water market ; River basins ; Surface water ; Water demand ; Water scarcity ; Environmental degradation ; Water pollution ; Urbanization ; Industrialization ; Effluents ; Villages ; Pollution control ; Wells ; Water table ; Legislation / India / Tamil Nadu / Noyyal River Basin / Bhavani River Basin / Kalingarayan Canal / Amaravathi River Basin / Palar River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G730 GWP Record No: H026916)
2 Saravanan, V. 2001. Technological transformation and water conflicts in the Bhavani River Basin of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1970. Environment and History, 7(3):289-334.
Irrigation water ; Water lifting ; Conflict ; Open channels ; Irrigation canals / India / Tamil Nadu / Bhavani River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7207 Record No: H036483)
3 Lannerstad, M.; Molden, David. 2009. Adaptive water resource management in the South Indian Lower Bhavani Project Command Area. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 30p. (IWMI Research Report 129) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.128]
Irrigation programs ; Water resource management ; River basins ; Water scarcity ; Irrigation canals ; Reservoirs ; Crop management ; Case studies ; History ; Rice ; Irrigated farming ; Groundwater ; Supplemental irrigation / India / Tamil Nadu / Lower Bhavani Project / Cauvery River Basin / Bhavani River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G635 LAN Record No: H042208)
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This report explores the theory and practice of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) based on a detailed field study in the Lower Bhavani Project (LBP) in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. A five-step framework is used to analyze the extent to which AWM is practiced and how it could be improved. The analysis shows that the LBP system has increasingly fulfilled the criteria of a complex adaptive system over the years. The main uncertainty factor, rainfall variability, has been considered in a stepwise way during the system change cycles and has been included in the LBP system design. The study shows that in spite of contending with an imperfect irrigation system design and intense competition for water resources, water resource managers and farmers are able to adapt and continue to reap benefits from a productive agricultural system.
4 Molle, Francois; Wester, P. (Eds.) 2009. River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development. Wallingford, UK: CABI; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 311p. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 8)
River basin management ; River basin development ; Hydrology ; Water governance ; Water use ; History ; Water allocation ; Water transfer ; Water quality ; Irrigation management ; Groundwater management ; Surface irrigation ; Water lifting ; Pumping / Middle East / Jordan / South Africa / Mexico / Tunisia / Tanzania / Iran / India / China / USA / Australia / Lower Jordan River Basin / Olifants River Basin / Lerma-Chapala River Basin / Mediterranean River Basin / Great Ruaha River / Zayandeh Rud River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Bhavani River Basin / Yellow River Basin / Colorado River Basin / Murray Darling River Basin / Merguellil Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G000 MOL Record No: H042436)
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5 Molle, Francois; Wester, P. (Eds.) 2009. River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development. Wallingford, UK: CABI; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 311p. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 8)
River basin management ; River basin development ; Hydrology ; Water governance ; Water use ; History ; Water allocation ; Water transfer ; Water quality ; Irrigation management ; Groundwater management ; Surface irrigation ; Water lifting ; Pumping / Middle East / Jordan / South Africa / Mexico / Tunisia / Tanzania / Iran / India / China / USA / Australia / Lower Jordan River Basin / Olifants River Basin / Lerma-Chapala River Basin / Mediterranean River Basin / Great Ruaha River / Zayandeh Rud River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Bhavani River Basin / Yellow River Basin / Colorado River Basin / Murray Darling River Basin / Merguellil Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G000 MOL c2 Record No: H042460)
6 Molle, Francois; Venot, Jean-Philippe; Lannerstad, M.; Hoogesteger, J. 2010. Villains or heroes?: farmers’ adjustments to water scarcity. Irrigation and Drainage, 59(4):419-431. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.500]
Water scarcity ; Drought ; Farmers ; Conjunctive use ; River basins ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation efficiency / Thailand / China / India / Jordan / Iran / Chao Phraya River Basin / Zhanghe Irrigation System / Bhavani River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Jordan Valley / Zayandeh Rud River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H042656)
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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.
7 Walling, D. E. (Ed.) 1982. Recent developments in the explanation and prediction of erosion and sediment yield: proceedings of a symposium held during the First Scientific General Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Exeter, UK, 19-30 July 1982. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). 430p. (IAHS publication 137)
Water resources development ; Hydrology ; Soil resources ; Erosion ; Soil properties ; Runoff ; Sediment ; Models ; Reservoirs ; River Basins ; Watersheds / USA / Hungary / Japan / Canada / India / Colombia / Nebraska / Platte River / Danjiankou Reservoir / Alberta / Oldman River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Bhavani River Basin / Wales / Yellow River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.45 G000 WAL Record No: H043917)
http://iahs.info/redbooks/a137/RB137.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043917.pdf
http://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043917_TOC.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043917.pdf
http://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043917_TOC.pdf
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