Tubewell Transfer in Gujarat
Tubewell Transfer in Gujarat

Author: Aditi Mukherji

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 9290905158

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In India public (government) tubewells were built with the intention of providing irrigation to all categories of farmers in a fair, equitable and affordable manner. However, most public tubewell programs across India have failed on all these counts. Efforts to transfer their management to water users too have met with little success. Nonetheless, the Gujarat Water Resources Development Corporation (GWRDC)-a state-owned public company-has achieved rare success in tubewell transfer by handing over management of around 60 percent of public tubewells in the Gujarat state to user groups. This study tries to identify the factors that helped in accelerating the transfer process and evaluate the performance of transferred tubewells against those owned by individuals and GWRDC. It also suggests some policy changes that can make the scheme function better and explores the replicability of the success achieved in Gujarat.

Irrigation Management Transfer
Irrigation Management Transfer

Author: S. H. Johnson

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9789251037065

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Globalization of irrigation management transfer: a summary of ideas and experiences fron the Whuhan conference; Irrigation management transfer: towards an integrated management revolution; Considerations in the transfer of responsibilities for services in the water resources sector; Lessons learned from irrigation management transfer programmes; Irrigation management transfer: problems in implementation; Institutuional context of irrigation management transfer; Gender aspects of irrigation management transfer: rethinking efficiency and equity: Overview of irrigation management transfer in China; Changes in irrigation as a result of policy reform in China leading to irrigation management transfer Chamgming Liu, Haisheng Mou, Quijun Ma, Jiang Kaipeng and Yang Guangxin; A better reform form of management system in irrigation districts: the system of contracted managerial responsibility; Institutionalmanagement and performance changes in two irrigation districts: case study from Hebei Province; Irrigagion management transfer: an Indian perspective; Transfer of management to water users in stages I and II of the Bhairawa-Lumbini Groundwater project; Developing share systems for sustainable water users associations; Financing participatory irrigation management in Sri Lanka; How to turn over irrigation systens to farmers? Questions and decisions in Indonesia; Irrigation service fee in Indonesia: towards irrigation comanagement with water users associations through contributions, voice, accountability, discipline and hard.

Simulating the hydrology of small coastal ecosystems in conditions of limited data
Simulating the hydrology of small coastal ecosystems in conditions of limited data

Author: Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Piyankarage, Sujeewa C., Stanzel, P., Boelee, Eline

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9290905387

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The impacts of water resources and irrigation development need to be quantified in order to understand the environmental costs of such development activities. Complex data-intensive simulation methods are normally used for this purpose in the developed world. However, lack of reliable data prohibits the use of such models in developing countries where it is more practical to apply models with less data requirements. The report illustrates three applications of simple and pragmatic simulation models to small coastal water bodies in Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Small dams and social capital in Yemen: How assistance strategies affect local investment and institutions
Small dams and social capital in Yemen: How assistance strategies affect local investment and institutions

Author: Vermillion, Douglas Lynn, Al-Shaybani, S.

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9290905379

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This report examines the development of eight small dam projects in the mountainous province of Al-Mahweet in north-central Yemen. The report also investigates how external assistance affects incentives for local people to invest in dam development and water delivery systems and also to create rules, property rights and institutional arrangements to manage the dam and water.

Irrigation Kuznets Curve, governance and dynamics of irrigation development: A global cross-country analysis from 1972 to 1991
Irrigation Kuznets Curve, governance and dynamics of irrigation development: A global cross-country analysis from 1972 to 1991

Author: Madhusudan Bhattarai

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 9290905239

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Using a global analysis across 66 countries, this study empirically validates the presence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationship for irrigation development. The resulting inverted U-shaped relationship between the level of irrigation and income implies that, water uses in irrigation and agriculture are considered more important in the early stage of development of a society. Once the economy grows, however, the relative importance of irrigation and water uses in agriculture declines, compared to water uses in other sectors.

Inadequacies in the water reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic: An institutional analysis
Inadequacies in the water reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic: An institutional analysis

Author: Ul Hassan, Mehmood Starkloff, R., Nizamedinkhodjaeva, Nargiza

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 929090562X

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This report analyzes the evolving water-management institutions and their performance of five core water management functions, in the context of the ongoing economic and agrarian reform in the Kyrgyz Republic. These core water-management functions are, operation of water systems, maintenance, resource mobilization, conflict resolution and organizational management. The report also identifies key issues and challenges that constrain effective stakeholder participation in water-resources management.

Prospects for adopting system of rice intensification in Sri Lanka: A socioeconomic assessment
Prospects for adopting system of rice intensification in Sri Lanka: A socioeconomic assessment

Author: Namara, Regassa E., Weligamage, Parakrama, Barker, Randolph.

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9290905352

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Today, there is an increasing worldwide interest in assessing the potential for maintaining or increasing rice yields by reducing or eliminating the use of chemicals and by decreasing irrigation requirements. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) first developed in Madagascar and now being tested in many countries, is an example of such an approach. The system is based largely on organic farming principles and additional requirements for spacing and the transplanting of seedlings.

Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer: A Review of the Evidence
Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer: A Review of the Evidence

Author: D. L. Vermillion

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13:

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Evaluates data from 29 different studies on irrigation management transfer to assess the impacts of transfer on various aspects of irrigation system management. Twelve guiding principles to ensure a more systematic approach to research on the impacts of management transfer are proposed. Identifies key research propositions on the conditions necessary for transfer programs to succeed.

Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries
Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries

Author: Barbara C. P. Koppen

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1845933273

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The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are livelihood-oriented and provide incentives for collective action but they can also be hierarchal, enforcing power and gender inequalities. This book shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be more able to reach their goals.