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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2010
    China, Asia

    The Yellow River Basin (YRB) Focal Project set out to study water poverty, water

    availability and access, water productivity, and water and related institutions in the

    Yellow River basin to develop and rank a series of high-priority interventions aimed at

    increasing water and food security for the poor, while maintaining environmental

    sustainability. The YBFP identified complex relations between water and poverty in the

    YRB; identified streamflow declines in the basin despite predicted higher rainfall;

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2015
    Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    India, Asia

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the

    series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises

    in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture

    in the Basin is extensive with the construction of dams, barrages, and link canals to

    distribute water, with modern engineering to support irrigation starting as early as the

    mid 1800s.

    Net runoff is about 10% of total precipitation. Irrigated agriculture covers 20% of

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, South-Eastern Asia

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The Mekong Basin covers six

    countries, the River rises in China, but there are substantial downstream tributaries

    from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and from a small area in Myanmar. A

    unique feature is the reverse flow from the Mekong to the Tonle Sap via the Tonle Sap

    River at the height of the wet season flow and its ebb as the river levels fall.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Brazil, South America

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the

    series, to the São Francisco basin in South America. The São Francisco Basin lies wholly

    within Brazil. There are several major dams and wetlands in the Basin.

    Net runoff is about 16% of total precipitation. Grassland is the most extensive land use,

    covering 59% of the Basin and uses 48% of the water. Rainfed agriculture covers 23%

    of the basin, but uses 14% of the water in the Basin. Forest and woodland cover 16% of

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    China, Asia

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the

    series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har

    Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A

    unique feature of the river is the large amount of silt it carries.

    Net runoff is about 14% of total precipitation. Forest and woodland cover 9% of the

    basin and use about 15% of the precipitation. Grassland covers much of the upper part

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Asia, Eastern Asia, China, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
    WorldFish is working with partners in the Mekong Region to support a new alliance of regional and local partners that will contribute towards sustainable wetlands management that benefit the poor. This project supports the Wetlands Alliance, an extensive network of organizations —government, civil and NGOs— actively engaged in developing innovative solutions to poverty alleviation. The Alliance helps local partners to build the capacity they need to work effectively with communities that they are supporting.

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