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To meet the demand deficit in Kathmandu Valley, the Government of Nepal has planned to supply an additional 510 million liters per day (mld) of water by implementing the Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) in the near future. In this study, we aim to assess the spatial distribution of groundwate...


Thapa, Bhesh Raj[Implications of the Melamchi water supply project for the Kathmandu Valley groundwater system]Implications of the Melamchi water supply project for the Kathmandu Valley groundwater system

Achieving water security has emerged as a major objective in Africa, yet an analytical or diagnostic framework for assessing water security in African countries is not known to exist. This paper applies one key dimension of the 2016 Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Asian Water Development Outlook (...


Holmatov, BunyodLautze, JonathanManthrithilake, HerathMakin, Ian[Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa]Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa

Presents results of a study of a beef-fattening project in which smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali were provided with credit to purchase mature cattle for fattening programme. The daily weight gain in animals kept permanently housed was on average higher than in animals which were...


Bartholomew, P.W.Ly, R.Nantoume, H.Kone, N'G.Traoré, B.Khibe, T.Sissoko, K.Baur, H.[Dry-season cattle fattening by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali]Dry-season cattle fattening by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali

Here, more than 100 years of incumbency reports on officers of the irrigation bureaucracy of Punjab, Pakistan, are presented and analyzed. The data highlight how representation changed before and after partition within the irrigation bureaucracy. The data show that the irrigation bureaucracy incr...


Wegerich, KaiHussain, Asghar[Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan]Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan

Poor performance of government managed irrigation systems persists globally despite numerous policies over the last four decades to address the problem. I argue that policy efforts to improve irrigation performance in developing countries fail in part because they are often formulated in isolatio...


Suhardiman, Diana[Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java]Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java

The Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) is designed to minimize the shortage of drinking water in the Kathmandu valley. Although the project was supposed to be completed by 2008, due to various problems, it is still diffi cult to forecast the exact date of completion. This paper quantifi es the ...


Gurung, PabitraBharathi L.[Downstream impacts of the Melamchi Inter-Basin Water Transfer Plan (MIWTP) under current and future climate change projections.]Downstream impacts of the Melamchi Inter-Basin Water Transfer Plan (MIWTP) under current and future climate change projections.

Water resources of the Koshi Basin (87,311km2) are largely untapped, and while proposals for their development exist, their impacts on current and future water demands are not quantified. The current study is the first to evaluate the impacts of 11 proposed development projects on hydropower gene...


Chinnasamy, PennanBharati, LunaBhattarai, UtsavKhadka, AmbikaDahal, VaskarWahid, S.[Impact of planned water resource development on current and future water demand of the Koshi river basin, Nepal]Impact of planned water resource development on current and future water demand of the Koshi river basin, Nepal

Water management in Bangladesh is guided by an intended integrated and inclusive approach enshrined in government legislation since the late 1990s. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected in the coastal zone, we assess the implementation of these policies with regard to women water u...


Buisson, Marie-CharlotteCurnow, J.Naz, F.[The gender gap between water management and water users: evidence from Southwest Bangladesh]The gender gap between water management and water users: evidence from Southwest Bangladesh

This paper presents a critical review of the physical impacts of decentralized water supply systems on existing centralized water infrastructures. This paper highlights the combination of centralized and decentralized systems, which is referred to as hybrid water supply systems. The system is hyp...


Sapkota, M.Arora, M.Malano, H.M.M.Sharma, A.George B.A.Francis, P.[An overview of hybrid water supply systems in the context of urban water management: Challenges and opportunities]An overview of hybrid water supply systems in the context of urban water management: Challenges and opportunities

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[Optimized shifts in sowing times of field crops to the projected climate changes in an agro-climatic zone of Pakistan]Optimized shifts in sowing times of field crops to the projected climate changes in an agro-climatic zone of Pakistan

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