Groundwater has been noted as a major resource for irrigation water in Nepal Terai. The development of different methods of groundwater withdrawal has been promoted in Rupandehi District. Open dug wells were a major source for domestic water use in the 1980s due to cost and ease of construction. ...
Okwany, Romulus O.
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Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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[Renovating open shallow dug wells for off-season home gardening in Nepal Terai]
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Renovating open shallow dug wells for off-season home gardening in Nepal Terai
Findings: Result revealed that the market actors of supply chain are taking significant benefit of value addition due to more investment in value creation. Vertical coordination is completely absent and the existence of horizontal coordination is in fragile form. The functional strategies in the ...
This paper assessed water management by households from three ethnic groups in two contrasting ecological settings (upland and lowland) in the Upper Ping River Basin in Northern Thailand. Important gender differences in the use and management of water were identified. Women are major users of wat...
Lebel, L.
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Lebel, P.
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Sriyasak, P.
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Ratanawilailak, S.
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Bastakoti, G.B.
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[Gender relations and water management in different eco-cultural contexts in northern Thailand]
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Gender relations and water management in different eco-cultural contexts in northern Thailand
Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Sugden, Fraser
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Raut, M.
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Shrestha, S.
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[Key constraints and collective action challenges for groundwater governance in the eastern Gangetic Plains]
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Key constraints and collective action challenges for groundwater governance in the eastern Gangetic Plains
The impact of shallow subsurface drainage was investigated as a pilot study on a 0.13 ha plot of a farmer’s field located in Batiaghata, Khulna District, Bangladesh, in the floodplain of the Bay of Bengal. The drainage design differed from traditional subsurface tile drains in two respects: (i) t...