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1 Nanayakkara, S. M. A.; Nanayakkara, V. A. S. P. 2006. New composite construction material for low cost underground water tanks. Engineer, 39(4)26-36.
Water tanks ; Design ; Construction materials ; Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Case studies / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H043249)
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2 Douxchamps, Sabine; Ayantunde, A.; Andah, W.; Barron, J. 2011. Learning from the past: rainwater management in the Volta Basin. [Abstract only]. Paper presented at the 3rd International Forum on Water and Food, Tshwane, South Africa, 14-17 November 2011. 2p.
Rain water management ; River basin development ; Development projects ; Agricultural production ; Multiple use / Africa / Burkina Faso / Ghana / Volta River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044729)
http://mahider.ilri.org/bitstream/handle/10568/10405/VRwSe004_Final_RD_1310.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044729.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044729.pdf
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3 Getnet, Kindie; MacAlister, Charlotte. 2012. Integrated innovations and recommendation domains: paradigm for developing, scaling-out, and targeting rainwater management innovations. Ecological Economics, 76:34-41. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.02.003]
Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Rainfed farming ; Ecological factors ; Agronomic practices ; Technology ; Indicators ; Economic aspects ; Corporate culture
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044800)
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The technical, economic, and ecological aspects of rainwater management are interlinked and spatially bounded. Developing, scaling-out, and targeting rainwater management innovations as adaptive strategies to upgrade rainfed agriculture are therefore preferably best approached through integrated innovations and recommendation domains as a paradigm. At the level of scenario development, the integrated innovations paradigm helps to understand and address integrity between technical, economic, and ecological issues that affect technology adoption, impact, and sustained use. At the level of scaling-out and targeting, recommendation domains provide the spatial dimension that embraces the economic, institutional, biophysical, and agro-ecological conditions in which integrated rainwater management innovations can be accommodated to address heterogeneity. This paper reviews Ethiopia's experience in rainwater management (adoption, performance, and impact) to get insights about the proposed paradigm and the factors entering the aradigm.The findings suggest that integrated innovations and the conditions of success embraced in a recommendation domain provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for a successful rainwater management intervention at a landscape level.
4 Fisher, M.; Cook, Simon. (Eds.) 2012. Water, food and poverty in river basins: defining the limits. London, UK: Routledge. 400p.
Water management ; Water resources development ; Groundwater management ; Rain water management ; Food security ; Crop production ; Farming systems ; Rainfed farming ; Irrigated farming ; Rural poverty ; Water poverty ; Mapping ; Indicators ; River basins ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Ecosystems ; Climate change ; Water scarcity ; Water quality ; Water productivity ; Water availability ; Institutions ; Corporate culture ; Water demand ; Water supply ; Water market ; Water use ; Legal aspects ; Development policy ; Water policy ; Water governance ; Administration ; Energy consumption ; Land use ; Land tenure ; Farmers ; Smallholders ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Living conditions ; Irrigation management ; Investment ; Population growth ; Runoff ; Case studies / Asia / Africa / South America / South East Asia / India / Iran / Uganda / Ethiopia / Sudan / Egypt / China / Andes Basins / Ganges River Basin / Indus River Basin / Karkheh River Basin / Limpopo River Basin / Mekong River Basin / Niger River Basin / Nile River Basin / Vilta River Basin / Yellow River Basin / Lake Victoria / Sudd Wetland / Gezira
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044835)
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5 Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Rebelo, Lisa-Maria; Molden, David. 2012. The Nile Basin: tapping the unmet agricultural potential of Nile waters. In Fisher, M.; Cook, Simon (Eds.). Water, food and poverty in river basins: defining the limits. London, UK: Routledge. pp.160-191.
River basins ; Water management ; Rain water management ; Agricultural production ; Social aspects ; Living conditions ; Poverty ; Water availability ; Water productivity ; Water accounting ; Lakes ; Wetlands ; Food security ; Economic growth ; Crop production ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Flow discharge ; Highlands ; Ecosystems ; Irrigation / Ethiopia / Sudan / Egypt / Lake Victoria / Sudd Wetland / Gezira Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044843)
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This paper provides an overview of poverty levels, hydrology, agricultural production systems and water productivity in the Nile Basin. There are opportunities to manage water better in the basin for use in agriculture to improve food security, livelihoods and economic growth by taking into account not only the water in the river, but also by improving management of the rain water. Crops, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture have long been important in the Nile but do not feature in the water discourse.
6 Sharma, Bharat. 2012. Rainfed agriculture in India. Water Today, May:40-41.
Rainfed farming ; Irrigated farming ; Agricultural systems ; Agricultural production ; Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Ecosystems / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044982)
(0.87 MB)
7 Fisher, M.; Cook, Simon. (Eds.) 2012. Water, food and poverty in river basins: defining the limits. London, UK: Routledge. 400p.
Water management ; Water resources development ; Groundwater management ; Rain water management ; Food security ; Crop production ; Farming systems ; Rainfed farming ; Irrigated farming ; Rural poverty ; Water poverty ; Mapping ; Indicators ; River basins ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Ecosystems ; Climate change ; Water scarcity ; Water quality ; Water productivity ; Water availability ; Institutions ; Corporate culture ; Water demand ; Water supply ; Water market ; Water use ; Legal aspects ; Development policy ; Water policy ; Water governance ; Administration ; Energy consumption ; Land use ; Land tenure ; Farmers ; Smallholders ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Living conditions ; Irrigation management ; Investment ; Population growth ; Runoff ; Case studies / Asia / Africa / South America / South East Asia / India / Iran / Uganda / Ethiopia / Sudan / Egypt / China / Andes Basins / Ganges River Basin / Indus River Basin / Karkheh River Basin / Limpopo River Basin / Mekong River Basin / Niger River Basin / Nile River Basin / Volta River Basin / Yellow River Basin / Lake Victoria / Sudd Wetland / Gezira
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI c2 Record No: H045033)
8 AgWater Solutions Project (Agricultural Water Solutions Project). 2012. Decentralized rainwater harvesting in Madhya Pradesh: a profitable investment option to improve agricultural production and incomes. Agriculture water management business proposal document. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). AgWater Solutions Project (Agricultural Water Solutions Project). 14p.
Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Investment ; Agricultural production ; Crop yields ; Livestock ; Income ; Dry season ; Water shortage ; Irrigation water ; Models / India / Madhya Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045042)
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9 Wani, S. P.; Rockstrom, J.; Sahrawat, K. L. (Eds.) 2011. Integrated watershed management in rainfed agriculture. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. 472p.
Watershed management ; Rainfed farming ; Rural poverty ; Rural communities ; Sustainable development ; Property rights ; Resource allocation ; Institutions ; Policy ; Land ownership ; Equity ; GIS ; Remote sensing ; Soil conservation ; Water conservation ; Rain water management ; Investment ; Living standards ; Smallholders ; Economic aspects ; Agricultural production ; Dry farming ; Water use efficiency ; Climate change ; Adaptation / Africa South of Sahara / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WAN Record No: H045110)
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10 Evans, Alexandra E. V.; Giordano, Meredith; Clayton, Terry. (Eds.) 2012. Investing in agricultural water management to benefit smallholder farmers in West Bengal, India. AgWater Solutions Project country synthesis report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 20p. (IWMI Working Paper 148) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2012.210]
Water management ; Agricultural production ; Investment ; Research projects ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Groundwater resources ; Water use ; Reservoirs ; Watersheds ; Electrification ; Pumps ; Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Irrigation ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Technology / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H045180)
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The AgWater Solutions Project, carried out between 2009 and 2012, focused on resolving water issues faced by smallholder farmers. The project examined existing Agricultural Water Management (AWM) solutions, together with factors that influence their adoption and scaling up. The project aimed to identify investment opportunities in AWM that have high potential to improve the incomes and food security of poor farmers. The work was undertaken in the African countries of Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia, and in the Indian States of Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. This Working Paper series summarizes results and recommendations from the research carried out in each of these countries and states.
11 Evans, Alexandra E. V.; Giordano, Meredith; Clayton, Terry. (Eds.) 2012. Investing in agricultural water management to benefit smallholder farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India. AgWater Solutions Project country synthesis report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 19p. (IWMI Working Paper 151) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2012.214]
Water management ; Agricultural production ; Investment ; Research projects ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Drip irrigation ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Irrigated land / India / Madhya Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H045211)
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12 Douxchamps, Sabine; Ayantunde, A.; Barron, J. 2012. Evolution of agricultural water management in rainfed crop-livestock systems of the Volta Basin. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). 64p. (CPWF Research for Development (R4D) Series 4)
Agricultural production ; Water management ; Water productivity ; River basins ; Poverty ; Water availability ; Rainfed farming ; Livestock ; Farmers ; Senses ; Rain water management ; Corporate culture ; Political aspects ; Small scale systems ; Irrigation systems ; Development projects ; Research projects / Burkina Faso / Northern Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045269)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/21721/AWM%20Volta%20review%20final%20rv%20sm.pdf?sequence=3
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045269.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045269.pdf
(0.99 MB) (0.90MB)
13 Jain, R. C. 2012. Role of decentralized rainwater harvesting and artificial recharge in reversal of groundwater depletion in the arid and semi-arid regions of Gujarat, India. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 49. 9p.
Rain water management ; Water harvesting ; Groundwater depletion ; Groundwater recharge ; Rain ; Hydrogeology / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045498)
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14 Butterworth, J.; Visscher, J. T.; van Steenbergen, F.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2011. Multiple use water services in Ethiopia scoping study. Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); New York, NY, USA: Rockefeller Foundation; Hague, Netherlands: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC). 52p.
Multiple use ; Water use ; Research projects ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water supply ; Pumps ; Rain water management ; Community involvement ; Small scale systems ; Irrigation systems ; Spate irrigation ; Socioeconomic environment ; Indicators ; Non governmental organizations ; Costs ; Food security / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045596)
http://www.musgroup.net/content/download/1329/11689/file/Report%20MUS%20Scoping%20Ethiopia%20IWMI-IRC.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045596.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045596.pdf
(1.31 MB) (1.32MB)
15 Lazarova, V.; Choo, K.-H.; Cornel, P. 2012. Water-energy interactions in water reuse. London, UK: IWA Publishing. 329p.
Water management ; Water resources ; Water reuse ; Water demand ; Water quality ; Sea water ; Salinity ; Desalinization ; Economic aspects ; Recycling ; Filtration ; Energy management ; Energy consumption ; Biogas ; Nutrient management ; Wastewater treatment ; Groundwater recharge ; Rain water management ; Water footprint ; Bioreactors ; Greenhouse gases ; Case studies ; Environmental effects ; Fuel crops / Germany / UK / USA / Los Angeles / London
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LAZ Record No: H045749)
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16 Crase, L.; Gandhi, V. P. (Eds.) 2009. Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development. London, UK: Earthscan. 364p.
Water resources development ; Water management ; Institutions ; Legal aspects ; Rain water management ; Sustainable development ; Developing countries ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Privatization ; Decision making ; Multivariate analysis ; Poverty ; Households ; Land ownership ; Investment ; Water user associations / Australia / India / Australian Capital Territory / New South Wales / Andhra Pradesh / Maharashtra / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.61 G000 CRA Record No: H045793)
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17 Arora, S. 2011. Sustainable water resource management in the foothills of the Siwaliks, northwest India. In Findikakis, A. N.; Sato, K. Groundwater management practices. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press - Balkema. pp.94-109. (IAHR Monograph)
Water management ; Water resources ; Mountains ; Rainfall patterns ; Cropping systems ; Rain water management ; Water conservation ; Water harvesting ; Ponds ; Water table ; Water law ; Water availability ; Groundwater development / Northwest India / Jammu Region / Himalayas / Sivalik Hills
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 FIN Record No: H045650)
18 Getnet, Kindie; Kefyalew, G. 2013. Managing rainwater, improving livelihoods: assessing impacts using a Rainwater–Livelihoods–Poverty Index (RLPI). Environment and Development Economics, 18(5): 615-639. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X13000247]
Rain water management ; Living standards ; Poverty ; Indicators ; Impact assessment ; Water availability ; Rural areas ; Households ; Farmers / Western Ethiopia / Diga District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045856)
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Assessing and empirically measuring the development impact of rainwater management innovations to inform related decisions remains conceptually and methodologically difficult. Whether it is empirically more appropriate to assess and measure the impact pathways than the impact per se remains an important methodological issue. This paper proposes a Rainwater–Livelihoods–Poverty Index (RLPI) as a comprehensive and participatory impact pathway assessment technique with measurable indicators recapitulating the sustainable livelihoods framework. The methodological contributions to rainwater impact assessment are two-fold. First, the RLPI explicitly incorporates intermediate processes and impact pathways as important factors affecting the development impacts of rainwater-related interventions. Second, the RLPI combines quantitative and qualitative household response data into a single yet meaningful quantitative impact indicator. This makes the methodology participatory, allowing farmers engagement to use their knowledge (as local expert observers) in informing rainwater management decisions. The methodology is empirically tested in Diga district (western Ethiopia) and validated using expert opinions.
19 Oweis, T.; Hachum, A.; Bruggeman, A. (Eds.) 2004. Indigenous water-harvesting systems in West Asia and North Africa. Aleppo, Syria: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) 173p.
Water resources ; Water harvesting ; History ; Techniques ; Drinking water ; Ponds ; Dams ; Lakes ; Indigenous knowledge ; Arid zones ; Rain water management ; Runoff ; Reservoirs ; Agriculture / West Asia / North Africa / Tunisia / Jordan / Morocco / Syria / Libya / Iraq / Egypt / Yemen / Pakistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 OWE Record No: H045946)
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20 Mishra, A.; James, B. K.; Mohanty, R. K.; Anand, P. S. B. 2014. Conservation and efficient utilization of rainwater in the rainfed shallow lowland paddy fields of Eastern India. Paddy and Water Environment, 12(1):25-34. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10333-013-0355-5]
Rain water management ; Water conservation ; Water productivity ; Water quality ; Rainfed farming ; Fish farming ; Farmers ; Rice fields ; Weirs ; Monsoon climate / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046250)
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A two-stage rainwater conservation technique was intervened in the farmers field of rainfed shallow low land, in which, part of the rainwater is conserved in rice field up to the weir crest level and the remaining in a refuge for rearing of fish (Catla catla, Labeo rohita, Cirrhinus mrigala and Cyprinus carpio). The conserved rainwater in the refuge is also used for giving supplemental irrigation to rice crop during rainy season and growing a light duty crop in winter season. On-farm experiment was conducted in the farmer’s field for three consecutive years to study the scope and feasibility of this technique in enhancing productivity and cropping intensity. Three different weir heights (15, 20 and 25 cm) were considered as treatments with two replications each. Refuge occupying areas of 5–8 % of the rice field with a depth of 1.75 m were constructed at the downstream side of each plot. As a result of this intervention, the mono-cropped area could be gradually brought under double cropping. The rice yield increased from 1.8 to 5.3 t/ha. Fish yield of as high as 1,693 kg/ha was obtained for a fish rearing period of about 6 months. The net water productivity increased from 3.76 to 7.38 Rs./m3. The highest net return of Rs. 63,572 was recorded in 20 cm weir height plots with a benefit cost ratio of 2.60. The system generated employment opportunity, increased income for farmers and provided nutritional security.
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