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    Productivity of water in agriculture: farmers? perceptions and practices

    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Tanzania, Southern Africa
    Land Conflicts
    land conflicts

    Stakeholders in agriculture and water related issues have different perceptions about the productivity of water. This is evident by the different definitions of productivity of water, though most of the definitions hinge around the benefits accrued from water use. The viewpoint of smallholder farmers? regarding the productivity of water is important in order to promote the concept of productivity of water in a country like Tanzania. This is because 95 percent of the farmers are smallholders. This paper presents the farmers?

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    IWRM challenges in developing countries: lessons from India and elsewhere

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2007
    India, Southern Asia
    water management

    Developing countries like India are actively being encouraged to move from the traditional supply-side orientation towards proactive demand management under the broad framework of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a sound philosophy which is hard to disagree with.

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    Improved water management through effective water users associations in Central Asia: Case of Kyrgyzstan

    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia
    water management

    Continuous institutional changes in the rural sector in Central Asia have negatively affected the reforms and the development of other related sectors, e.g. the irrigation sector. Therefore, reforms in the irrigation sector have been carried out in an ever changing and uncertain environment. Institutional changes have so far been aimed the farm level that was formerly managed by collective and state farms. Replacement of relatively few collective farms by thousands of individual farming units has resulted in chaos and anarchy in water management at on farm level.

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    From integrated to expedient: an adaptive framework for river basin management in developing countries

    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    water management

    The authors reflect on the theory and process of creating effective strategies for adaptive river basin management. We formulate our framework from observations of responses to environmental and hydrological change in the Great Ruaha River in Tanzania. We find that problems occur in the pursuit of 'integrated water resources management' (IWRM) that can be attended to by applying a focused expedient approach in three states of the water availability regime: 'critical water', 'medial water' and 'bulk water'.

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    Environmental and social values of river water: examples from the Menik Ganga, Sri Lanka

    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
    fisheries

    Many decisions on water allocation in river basins are made on economic grounds. Environmental and social benefits of water should also be considered in river basin management, and attempts should be made to value them similarly. This is not a straightforward task and very few studies have directly addressed this issue to date. In this paper, the Menik Ganga (River) in southern Sri Lanka is used as a case study to attempt and evaluate the costs and benefits of environmental water allocations, referred to as ?environmental flows? (EF).

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