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1 Gulick, L. H. Jr. 1963. Irrigation systems of the former Sind province, west Pakistan. Geographical Review, pp. 79-99.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1376 Record No: H01205)
2 Hai, A. A.; Hussaini, S. A. 1989. Factors impeding the formation of effective water users association in Sindh. In Tirmizi, J.; Parlin, B. (Eds.), Societal dynamics and irrigation systems: A compilation of working papers: Phase 1 - Encouraging water users involvement in better water management sub-project. Islamabad, Pakistan: Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources. pp.18-26.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G730 TIR Record No: H06952)
3 Panhwar, I. A. 1989. Water-logging and salinity on the left bank of the Indus: A socio -economic study of irrigated agriculture in lower Sindh. Pakistan: Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources. pp.27-32.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G730 TIR Record No: H06953)
4 Chandio, B. A.; Azam, M.; Khan, M. Z. I. 1993. Potential role of water users associations for better water management at the farm level: Synthesis of nine studies. In Government of Pakistan-USAID Irrigation Systems Management Research Project; IIMI, Proceedings: Irrigation Systems Management Research Symposium, Lahore, 11-13 April 1993. Vol.III. - Role of water users in irrigation management. pp.1-16.
Water user associations ; Water management ; On farm research ; Farmers' associations / Pakistan / Balochistan / Kech Valley / Swat Valley / Chitral / Sind / Punjab
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.8 G730 IIMI Record No: H012891)
Considering that little monitoring of the performance of water users associations was conducted until 1986, nine studies to determine the success of water user organizations were recently conducted by social scientists and anthropologists of various universities in Pakistan under the Encouraging Water Users (EWU) sub-project. Based on the fact that the on-farm water management program was launched in the early seventies and that water users associations were not provided legal protection until 1981, the studies also searched for any institutional constraints limiting the viability of the associations. Out of nine studies, three were done in Balochistan to determine community impact and tribal affiliations on collective management of karezes and tubewells. Studies suggested that the tribal system could readily form into a water users association. The studies noted also that the tribal system was a more appropriate system for installation of tubewells than rehabilitation of karezes. Poverty emerged as a larger constraint against the success of water management programs. The study of socioeconomics and irrigation system in Swat indicated that the unplanned and disorganized irrigation system is prone to many problems whereas the study on irrigation and society in Chitral revealed that socially organized farmers could manage irrigation water effectively. Two studies in Sindh and one in Punjab reported that water users associations would not help improve irrigation efficiencies unless other considerations were brought under the domain of water users associations. In Barani areas of Punjab, research suggested that because the local Irrigation Department had shown little interest, water users associations were prime candidates to take responsibility of small dams.
5 Mirbahar, M. B.; Marri, M. K.; Chang, M. H. 1993. Collaborative tile drainage system-key to solve waterlogging and salinity problems. In Government of Pakistan-USAID Irrigation Systems Management Research Project; IIMI, Proceedings: Irrigation Systems Management Research Symposium, Lahore, 11-13 April 1993. Vol.IV. - Drainage and water table control. pp.9-25.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.8 G730 IIMI Record No: H012895)
The widespread problem of waterlogging and salinity in irrigated areas of Pakistan has been averted by the implementation of the Salinity Control and Reclamation Projects (SCARPs). Although these projects have attained some degree of success, serious problems in their operation and maintenance occur due to the isolated approach in implementing and operating SCARPs. Farmers are not involved in the various stages of the projects, from planning to implementation. The Drainage and Reclamation Institute of Pakistan (DRIP) initiated a concept of collaborative drainage and cost sharing with farmers. DRIP has designed and constructed nine tile drainage units on farmer fields, where the farmers shared 30% to 60% of the capital cost and full operational and maintenance costs. DRIP conducts research to evolve technologies for watertable control, soil salinity, reuse of drainage effluent, farm output in tile drainage units. This paper discusses the results from the performance study of three tile drainage units completed with cost sharing and collaboration of farmers. Hydrologic, crop, and soil salinity monitoring indicate desired watertable control, a fivefold increase in yield of wheat, 30% in mango, and up to 200% in cropped area. On the basis of these encouraging results and the increasing interest of many farmers, a project proposal for 6,000 hectares under collaborative drainage was prepared by DRIP and submitted for consideration with the Planning and Development Department, Government of Sindh.
6 Chandio, B. A.; Azam, M.; Khan, M. Z. I. 1993. Potential role of water users associations for better water management at the farm level: Synthesis of nine studies. In IIMI. Pakistan; PCRWR, Irrigation Systems Management Research (ISM/R) Project. Final report: Encouraging water users associations. 14p.
Water user associations ; Water management ; Case studies ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects / Pakistan / Balochistan / Swat Valley / Chitral / Sind / Punjab
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.8 G730 IIM Record No: H013273)
7 IIMI. Pakistan. 1993. Irrigation Systems Management Research (ISM/R) Project: Final report. Physical hydraulic modeling of irrigation facilities and monitoring of irrigation water. v.p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.8 G730 IIM Record No: H013275)
8 1993. Technical report on collection of hydrological data and monitoring of irrigation water in the Province of Sind. In IIMI. Pakistan. Irrigation Systems Management Research (ISM/R) Project. Final report: Physical hydraulic modeling of irrigation facilities and monitoring of irrigation water. 19p.
Hydrology ; Data collection ; Monitoring ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation canals ; Water quality / Pakistan / Sind
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.8 G730 IIM Record No: H013278)
9 Clark, A. K.; Aniq, M. 1993; 1994. Canal irrigation and development opportunities for the Indus Right Bank in Sindh and Balochistan. ICID Bulletin; Water Resources Journal, 42(1):11-32; December:84-94.
Irrigation canals ; Rice ; Wheat ; Salinity control ; Cropping systems ; Agricultural production ; Water use efficiency ; Water table / Pakistan / Sind / Balochistan
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H013962)
10 Brett, M. L. A.; Davey, C. J. N.; Shamim-uddin Ahmad. 1993. Design of vortex tube sand extractors for the Jamrao canal. In ICID, 15th International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1993: Water management in the next century: Transactions: Vol.1-D, Question 44, R104-R118: Planning and design of irrigation and drainage systems. New Delhi, India: ICID. pp.1321-1330.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: ICID 631.7 G000 ICI Record No: H013411)
11 van Wonderen, J.; Jones, C. 1995. Groundwater scavenging. World Water and Environmental Engineering, 18(1):14.
Groundwater extraction ; Salinity ; Water quality ; Irrigation water ; Drainage ; Wells ; Pumps / Pakistan / Sind
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H016288)
12 van Aart, R. 1989. Evaluation and workplan for a project on Managing Irrigation Systems to Minimize Waterlogging and Salinity in the Guni Branch of the Kotri Barrage Command, Sind, Pakistan. Consultancy report within the framework of IIMI-Pakistan project "Managing Irrigation Systems to Minimize Waterlogging and Salinity Problems" 34p.
Irrigation systems ; Waterlogging ; Salinity ; Irrigation canals ; Irrigation management ; Environmental effects ; Performance evaluation / Pakistan / Sind
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.5 730 VAN Record No: H016652)
13 Hunting Technical Services. 1966. Comparison of agriculture in Sind and Punjab. IBRD Programme for the Development of Irrigation and Agriculture in West Pakistan. xiv, 136p.
Agricultural production ; Crop production ; Land tenure ; Tenancy ; Land ownership ; Rural sociology ; Land use ; Irrigated farming ; Farming systems ; Crop yield ; Animal husbandry ; Farm income ; Credit ; Marketing ; Water supply / Pakistan / Punjab / Sind
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3908 Record No: H016954)
14 Bandaragoda, D. J. 1998. Constraints and prospects for shared control over water resources management in South Asia: results from pilot efforts in Pakistan. Paper presented at International Workshop on Shared Resource Management in South Asia: the next step, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India, 17-19 February 1998. 11p.
Water resource management ; Constraints ; Irrigation management ; Irrigation canals ; Social organization ; Participatory management ; Water users ; Drainage ; Farmers' associations ; Research institutes ; Irrigation programs / Pakistan / Punjab / Sind / Hakra / Fordwah Eastern Sadiqia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IIMI 333.91 G730 BAN Record No: H022156)
15 Prathapar, S. A.; Qureshi, A. S.; Smets, S. M. P. 1997. Mechanically reclaiming abandoned saline soils: A numerical evaluation. In ICID, 7th ICID International Drainage Workshop, "Drainage for the 21st century," 17-21 November 1997, Penang, Malaysia - Proceedings, volume 3: Management challenge, training and research. Malacca, Malaysia: Malaysian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (MANCID) pp.T14:1-17.
Soil salinity ; Soil reclamation ; Simulation ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Mathematical models ; Water table ; Soil water / Pakistan / Punjab / Sind / Indus Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: ICID 631.62 G000 ICI, IIMI 631.4 G730 PRA Record No: H022818)
16 Khandelwal, M. K.; Raju, K. C. B.; Kanzaria, M. V.; Shekh, A. M. 2000. Spatial and temporal variation of rainfall and rainwater harvesting potential for Kutch District: A case study. In Mehrotra, R.; Soni, B.; Bhatia, K. K. S. (Eds.), Integrated water resources management for sustainable development - Volume 1. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology. pp.735-743.
Livestock ; Soils ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Rain ; Water harvesting / India / Pakistan / Gujarat / Kutch District / Sind
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 MEH Record No: H028089)
17 Aslam, M. 2003. Improved water management practices in the rice-wheat zone of Sind, Pakistan. In CIMMYT. RWC, Addressing resource conservation issues in rice-wheat systems of South Asia: A resource book. New Delhi, India: CIMMYT. RWC. pp.187-191.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.2 G570 CIM Record No: H031878)
18 Qureshi, Asad Sarwar; McCornick, Peter G.; Qadir, Manzoor; Aslam, Z. 2008. Managing salinity and waterlogging in the Indus Basin of Pakistan. Agricultural Water Management, 95: 1-10.
River basins ; Salinity control ; Waterlogging ; Drainage ; Canals ; Groundwater ; Recharge ; Tube wells ; Irrigated farming / Pakistan / Indus Basin / Baluchistan / Sind / Punjab
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.5 G730 QUR Record No: H040511)
Waterlogging and salinization are major impediment to the sustainability of irrigated lands and livelihoods of the farmers, especially the smallholders, in the affected areas of the Indus Basin. These problems are the result of a multitude of factors, including seepage from unlined earthen canals system, inadequate provision of surface and subsurface drainage, poor water management practices, insufficient water supplies and use of poor quality groundwater for irrigation. About 6.3 million ha are affected by different levels and types of salinity, out of which nearly half are under irrigated agriculture. Since the early 1960s, several efforts have been made to improve the management of salt-affected and waterlogged soils. These include lowering groundwater levels through deep tubewells, leaching of salts by excess irrigation, application of chemical amendments (e.g. gypsum, acids, organic matter), and the use of biological and physical methods. However, in spite of huge investments, the results have in general been disappointing and the problems of waterlogging and salinity persist. This paper reviews sources, causes and extent of salinity and waterlogging problems in the Indus Basin. Measures taken to overcome these problems over the last four decades are also discussed. The results reveal that the installed drainage systems were initially successful in lowering groundwater table and reducing salinity in affected areas. However, poor operation and maintenance of these systems and provision of inadequate facilities for the disposal of saline drainage effluent resulted in limited overall success. The paper suggests that to ensure the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the Indus Basin, technical and financial support is needed and enhanced institutional arrangements including coordination among different federal and provincial government agencies to resolve inter-provincial water allocation and water related issues is required.
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