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This study looks at the groundwater issues in the dry zone of Sri Lanka and shows how the use of remote sensing with high-resolution images can help in groundwater management. A new approach is developed for automatic extraction of the location of agrowells using high-spatial-resolution satellite...


Sood, AdityaManthrithilake, HerathSiddiqui, SalmanRajah, AmeerPathmarajah, S.[Managing shallow aquifers in the dry zone of Sri Lanka]Managing shallow aquifers in the dry zone of Sri Lanka
Karimov, AkmalMavlonov, A.Turral, HughManthrithilake, HerathBorisov, V.Rahmatov N.Jumanov, J.Ivanov, Y.[The problem of regulating winter flow of Syrdarya River and groundwater management in Fergana Valley. In Russian]The problem of regulating winter flow of Syrdarya River and groundwater management in Fergana Valley. In Russian

The Ferghana Valley Project, initiated in 2001, has promoted institutional change in the post-Soviet irrigation sector in this part of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. This paper presents the short-term (5-year) impacts of integrated water resources management project activities focused on ...


Abdullaev, IskandarKazbekov, Jusipbek S.Jumaboev, KahramonManthrithilake, Herath[Adoption of integrated water resources management principles and its impacts: lessons from Ferghana Valley]Adoption of integrated water resources management principles and its impacts: lessons from Ferghana Valley

The primary objective of an irrigation organization is to provide efficient and effective management of water resources to achieve enhanced agricultural production. Performance assessment studies provide a tool to evaluate and promote this objective. The study examines the existing planning proce...


Kazbekov, Jusipbek S.Abdullaev, IskandarManthrithilake, HerathQureshi, Asad SarwarJumaboev, Kahramon[Evaluating planning and delivery performance of water user associations (WUAs) in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan]Evaluating planning and delivery performance of water user associations (WUAs) in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan

This paper describes the value of a computer-based simulation model in the implementation of participatory water allocation policy in Sri Lanka. The model simulates the interconnected networks of 7 basins, including 18 reservoirs, 19 irrigation schemes and 13 hydropower stations. Stakeholders are...


Manthrithilake, HerathLiyanagama, S.[Simulation model for participatory decision making: water allocation policy implementation in Sri Lanka]Simulation model for participatory decision making: water allocation policy implementation in Sri Lanka

"Water security? has come to infiltrate prominent discourse in the international water and development community, and achieving it is often viewed as a new water sector target. Despite the levated status that the concept has increasingly acquired, understandings of the term are murky and quantifi...


Lautze, JonathanManthrithilake, Herath[Water security: old concepts, new package, what value?.]Water security: old concepts, new package, what value?.

This paper examines the recent emerging informal Water Users Groups (WUGs) on the Ferghana Valley for managing of the water at the former collective farm level and potential for strengthening of the weak Water Users Associations (WUAs) through replication of WUGs formation. Due to the collapse of...


Abdullaev, IskandarKazbekov, Jusipbek S.Manthrithilake, HerathJumaboev, Kahramon[Water user groups in Central Asia: emerging form of collective action in irrigation water management]Water user groups in Central Asia: emerging form of collective action in irrigation water management

After the independence of Central Asian countries, many international projects have been launched to promote water users' inclusion into the water management at different levels. The aim of such projects is to achieve sustainable water management through inclusion of interests of different groups...


Abdullaev, IskandarKazbekov, Jusipbek S.Manthrithilake, HerathJumaboev, Kahramon[Participatory water management at the main canal: a case from South Ferghana canal in Uzbekistan]Participatory water management at the main canal: a case from South Ferghana canal in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, being historically one of the most populated and agriculture-based republics in the former Soviet Union, still features quite high annual population growth rates and great dependence on agriculture as a backbone for the rest of the economic reforms.With water playing an extremely impo...


Yakubov, MuratManthrithilake, Herath[Water for food as food for thought: case study of applying the PODIUMSim model to Uzbekistan]Water for food as food for thought: case study of applying the PODIUMSim model to Uzbekistan

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