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1 van Koppen, Barbara; Smits, S.; Mikhail, M.. 2009. Homestead and community scale multiple use water services: unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals. Irrigation and Drainage, 58:S73-S86. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.486]
Water use ; Multiple use ; Water supply ; Domestic water ; Irrigation water ; Gender ; Poverty ; Cost benefit analysis ; Case studies / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H042166)
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Since the early 2000s, a new participatory approach to water services delivery is emerging: multiple-use water services (MUS). By overcoming sectoral boundaries within the water sector, new opportunities are opened up that better align with people’s practice of using water from multiple sources for multiple uses. Two opportunities are discussed in this paper on the basis of past research by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, among others. One new opportunity is homestead-scale MUS. Providing double or triple the quantities of the design norms in the domestic subsector in poor rural and periurban areas allows water users to take up significant productive activities besides meeting domestic needs. Cost–benefit ratios are favourable. Homestead-scale MUS is the most effective way of using water to contribute to all Millennium Development Goals. A related second new opportunity is community-scale MUS. This participatory approach to water services considers communities’ holistic water-and landscapes and supports incremental improvements in infrastructure according to people’s own priorities and needs, which are often in favour of homestead-scale MUS. New synergies in infrastructure intakes, storage and conveyance are tapped.
2 van Koppen, Barbara; Smits, S.; Moriarty, P.; Penning de Vries, F.; Mikhail, M.; Boelee, Eline. 2009. Climbing the water ladder: multiple-use water services for poverty reduction. Hague, Netherlands: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). 215p. (IRC TP Series 52)
Multiple use ; Models ; Water productivity ; Research projects ; Water supply ; Domestic water ; Irrigation water ; Water governance ; Poverty ; Gender ; Rural areas ; Wells ; Water harvesting ; Runoff ; Water storage ; Water purification ; Appropriate technology ; Costs ; Local government ; Non governmental organizations ; Case studies / Ehiopia / Nepal / Zimbabwe / Bolivia / India / Colombia / Thailand / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 VAN Record No: H042336)
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In low- and middle-income countries, people need water for drinking, personal hygiene and other domestic use. But they also use it for livestock, horticulture, irrigation, fisheries, brickmaking, and other small-scale enterprises. Multiple-use water services (MUS) are best suited to meeting people’s needs. However, most water services are designed only for domestic water or only for agriculture, and fail to reflect its real-life use. The action research project ‘Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity’ developed case studies in eight countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand and Zimbabwe) involving 150 institutions. The project analysed two models: homestead-scale and community-scale MUS and developed a ‘multiple-use water ladder' to show how better livelihoods flow from increased access to water. This book shows how livelihoods act as the main driver for water services and how access to water is determined by sustainable water resources, appropriate technologies and equitable ways of managing communal systems. Climbing the water ladder requires a small fraction of total water resources, yet has the potential to help people climb out of poverty. Local government can be the pivot to make this happen. But, it needs support to implement its mandate to meet multiple-use demand and to become more accountable to people in communities.
3 van Koppen, Barbara; Smits, S.; Moriarty, P.; Penning de Vries, F.; Mikhail, M.; Boelee, Eline. 2009. Ascendiendo la escala del agua: servicios de abastecimiento de agua de usos multiples para la reduccion de la pobreza. In Spanish. [Climbing the water ladder: multiple-use water services for poverty reduction]. Hague, Netherlands: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) 232p. (IRC TP Series 52)
Multiple use ; Models ; Water productivity ; Research projects ; Water supply ; Domestic water ; Irrigation water ; Water governance ; Poverty ; Gender ; Rural areas ; Wells ; Water harvesting ; Runoff ; Water storage ; Water purification ; Appropriate technology ; Costs ; Local government ; Non governmental organizations ; Case studies / Ethiopia / Nepal / Zimbabwe / Bolivia / India / Colombia / Thailand / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 VAN Record No: H042917)
4 Mikhail, M.; de Bruin, A. 2011. Opportunities for agricultural water management interventions in the Jaldhaka Watershed in Koch Bihar, West Bengal, India. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). 4p. (SEI Policy Brief)
Water management ; Crop production ; Watersheds ; Rivers ; Groundwater ; Irrigation ; Pumps / India / West Bengal / Koch Bihar / Jaldhaka Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044901)
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