Due to extensive groundwater development in the recent past, Pakistan now faces enormous challenges of groundwater management as it struggles to ensure food security for its rapidly growing population. These management challenges require a re-balancing of surface and groundwater monitoring object...
Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Aslam, Muhammad
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[Groundwater monitoring and management: status and options in Pakistan]
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Groundwater monitoring and management: status and options in Pakistan
This paper predicts climate change pattern and outlines suitable adaptation strategies related to irrigated agricultural practices in Hakra Branch Canal Command (HBCC) of Pakistan. Climate change predictions were simulated using models perturbed with climatic data and A2 emission scenario. A bias...
Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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Ahmad, Waqas
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Shah, Muhammad Azeem
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Khattak, M.S.
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[Climate change evidence and community level autonomous adaptation measures in a canal irrigated agriculture system of Pakistan]
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Climate change evidence and community level autonomous adaptation measures in a canal irrigated agriculture system of Pakistan
In this research we explore the potential of precision surface irrigation to improve irrigation performance under the warabandi system prevalent in the Indus Basin Irrigation System. Data on field dimensions, field slopes along with characteristic soil infiltration properties and outlet discharge...
Anwar, Arif A.
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Ahmad, W.
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Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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Ul Haq, Z.
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[The potential of precision surface irrigation in the Indus Basin Irrigation System]
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The potential of precision surface irrigation in the Indus Basin Irrigation System
This paper evaluates 30-year (2013–2042) projections of the selected climatic parameters in cotton/wheat agro-climatic zone of Pakistan. A statistical bias correction procedure was adopted to eliminate the systematic errors in output of three selected general circulationmodels (GCM) under A2 emis...
Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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[Optimized shifts in sowing times of field crops to the projected climate changes in an agro-climatic zone of Pakistan]
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Optimized shifts in sowing times of field crops to the projected climate changes in an agro-climatic zone of Pakistan
The Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS) lacks a system for measuring canal inflows, storages, and outflows that is trusted by all parties, transparent, and accessible. An earlier attempt for telemetering flows in the IBIS did not deliver. There is now renewed interest in revisiting telemetry in ...
Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Ali Shah, Muhammad Azeem
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[Revisiting telemetry in Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System]
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Revisiting telemetry in Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System
A key operational objective for the management of the Indus Basin Irrigation System of Pakistan is the distribution of water among tertiary canals in a transparent and equitable manner. Decisions on canal operations are disseminated as a Canal Operation Plan, or a Rotational Program, for each cro...
Anwar, Arif A.
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Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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Vries, T.T. de
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[Canal operations planner. I: maximizing delivery performance ratio]
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Canal operations planner. I: maximizing delivery performance ratio
Equity of water distribution is an oft-repeated and stated aim of the warabandi irrigation systems prevalent in Pakistan and parts of India. The Canal Operations Plan is one tool used to operationalize equitable distribution of water. These plans are created for every canal system every crop seas...
Anwar, Arif A.
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Vries, T.T. de
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Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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[Canal operations planner. II: minimizing inequity]
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Canal operations planner. II: minimizing inequity