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1 IWMI. 2003. Linking community-based water and forest management for sustainable livelihoods of the poor in fragile upper catchments of the Indus-Ganges Basin. Unpublished report. v.p.
Water management ; River basins ; Forest management ; Water stress ; Water conservation ; Irrigation water ; Groundwater ; Water use efficiency ; Productivity ; Flood water ; Drought / Nepal / China / Africa / Indus / Ganges / Karkheh Basin / Nile / Yellow River / Limpopo
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G000 IWM Record No: H032893)
2 IWMI. (Comp.) 2006. IDIS basin kit, Karkheh Basin, V1.0. Colombo, Sri Lanka: IWMI. 1 DVD.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: DVD Col Record No: H038922)
3 Kirby, M.; Mainuddin, M.; Ahmad, Mobin-ud-Din; Marchand, Pierre; Zhang, L. 2006. Water use account spreadsheets with examples of some major river basins. In 9th International Riversymposium, Brisbane, Australia, 4-7 September 2006. 15p.
River basins ; Water use ; Hydrology / Australia / South East Asia / Iran / Murray-Darling Basin / Mekong Basin / Karkheh Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 KIR Record No: H039913)
4 CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food; Agriculture Research and Education Organisation (AREO); Khuzistan Water and Power Authority (KWPA) 2005. Karkheh Basin Focal Project in Iran: Phase I report. Unpublished project report. 77p.
River basin development ; Watersheds ; Project management ; Water management ; Land management ; Natural resources management ; Poverty ; Water balance ; Hydrology ; Evapotranspiration ; Remote sensing ; Rainfed farming ; Irrigated farming ; Social aspects / Iran / Karkheh Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.8 G690 IWM Record No: H040616)
5 Masih, Ilyas; Ahmad, Mobin-ud-Din; Turral, Hugh; Uhlenbrook, S.; Karimi, Poolad. 2008. Understanding hydrologic variability for better surface water allocations in Karkheh Basin Iran. Paper presented at the 13th IWRA World Water Congress on Global Changes and Water Resources, "Confronting the expanding and diversifying pressures", Montpellier, France, 1-4 September 2008. 15p.
River basin management ; Hydrology ; Surface water ; Water allocation ; Water balance ; Precipitation ; Stream flow / Iran / Karkheh Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 551.483 G690 MAS Record No: H041523)
http://www.worldwatercongress2008.org/resource/authors/abs823_article.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041523.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041523.pdf
Water-limited environments occupy about half of the global land area and are highly sensitive to change due to scarcity and variable distribution of water and nutrients. The Karkheh basin in Iran is in a water limited region which exhibits increasing competition for scarce water resources between irrigation, domestic, hydropower and environmental needs. Increasing demands for water are making sustainable water management more and more difficult particularly because of lack of understanding of basin hydrology and impacts of water resource development on different users across the basin. An in-depth study was conducted to examine the inter-annual and long-term variability of surface water resource using daily stream flow data from 1961 to 2001 at seven key locations across the Karkheh basin. The water accounting at basin scale was carried out using the available information for the water year 1993-94, which is considered in Iran as the reference year for future development and allocation of water resources in the Karkheh basin. The analysis reveals that water allocation planning on the basis of mean annual surface water availability can only provide a supply security of about 45 %, ranging from 40 to 52 percent. Although, the water allocations to different sectors are lower than the available resources and the competition among different sectors of water use is minimal during the study period, it would be extremely difficult to meet the demands in future i.e. by 2025, as planned allocation will reach close to the annual renewable water resources available in an average climatic year. The competition among irrigation and other sectors will keep increasing in future, particularly during dry years. The analysis conducted in this study is helpful in gaining further insights into the hydrological variability of surface water resources and incorporating it into water development and allocation strategies that will contribute in ensuring the sustained productivity from irrigated agriculture and other uses of water in the coming decades.
6 Cook, S. E.; Andersson, M. S.; Fisher, M. J. 2009. Assessing the importance of livestock water use in basins. Rangeland Journal, 31(2):195-205.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 636 100 AME Record No: H042781)
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Recent concern over food prices has triggered a renewed interest in agricultural production systems. While attention is focused mainly on cropping, a complete analysis of food production systems should recognise the importance of livestock as major consumers of resources – in particular water – and as providers of food and other products and services. We propose that there is a need to examine not just food systems in isolation, but combined food and water systems, both of which are described as in a critical condition. From this broader perspective, it appears even more important to understand livestock systems because first, a total evaluation of agricultural water productivity – the gain from water consumed by agriculture – cannot be made without understanding the complexities of livestock-containing systems and; second, because in most tropical river basins, livestock systems are the major consumers of water. To identify total water productivity of livestock-containing systems, we describe concepts of agricultural water productivity and review the complexities of tracking the flow of water through livestock-containing systems: from inputs as evapotranspiration (ET) of forage and crops to outputs of valued animal products or services. For the second part, we present preliminary results from water use accounts analysis for several major river basins, which reveal that for Africa at least, livestock systems appear to be the major water consumers. Yet, little is known about the fate of water as it passes through these systems. We propose that livestock-containing systems offer substantial scope for increasing total water productivity and that there is considerable merit in improving the capacity to analyse water consumption and water productivity through such systems. Without removing this major source of uncertainty, the potential for systemic improvement to meet the world food and water crisis remains undefined and hence under-acknowledged.
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