This paper assesses a case of co-management of groundwater between the state of Texas, pushing for the rationalisation of groundwater management, and local (mainly farming) communities organised in Groundwater Conservation Districts (GCDs), which are protective of their private groundwater rights...
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Chronicle of a demise foretold: state vs. local groundwater management in Texas and the high plains aquifer system]
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Chronicle of a demise foretold: state vs. local groundwater management in Texas and the high plains aquifer system
Groundwater use in India, and many developing countries, is linked to livelihood and well-being of village communities. It is, therefore, important to characterise groundwater behaviour and resilience and identify strategies that will help to improve the sustainability of groundwater supplies. Th...
Chinnasamy, Pennan
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Maheshwari, B.
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Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
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[Adaptation of standardised precipitation index for understanding watertable fluctuations and groundwater resilience in hard-rock areas of India]
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Adaptation of standardised precipitation index for understanding watertable fluctuations and groundwater resilience in hard-rock areas of India
Several irrigation water delivery methods are in practice in irrigated agriculture throughout the world, and a variety of classifications have been suggested by different researchers. Demand, arranged-demand, and rotation are the three main types of irrigation schedules/delivery methods. Irrigati...
Anwar, Arif A.
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Haq, Z.U.
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[Arranged-demand irrigation scheduling with nonidentical discharges]
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Arranged-demand irrigation scheduling with nonidentical discharges
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
Conventional wisdom in many agricultural systems across the world is that farmers cannot, will not, or should not pay the full costs associated with surface water delivery. Across Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, only a handful can claim complete recovery o...
Bell, A.R.
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Ward, P.S.
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Ali Shah, Azeem M.
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[Increased water charges improve efficiency and equity in an irrigation system]
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Increased water charges improve efficiency and equity in an irrigation system
The Indus Basin Irrigation System suffers significant inequity in access to surface water across its millions of users. Information, i.e., monitoring and reporting of water availability, may be of value in improving conditions across the basin, and we investigated this via an experimental game of...
Shah, M.Azeem A.
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Ringler, Claudia
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[What role can information play in improved equity in Pakistan’s irrigation system?: evidence from an experimental game in Punjab]
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What role can information play in improved equity in Pakistan’s irrigation system?: evidence from an experimental game in Punjab
The Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) water and energy sectors are under increasing pressure due to population growth and agricultural and industrial development. Climate change is also negatively impacting on the region’s water and energy resources. As the majority of SADC’s popula...
Mabhaudhi, T.
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Mpandeli, S.
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Madhlopa, A.
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Modi, A.T.
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Backeberg, G.
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Nhamo, Luxon
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[Southern Africa’s water-energy nexus: towards regional integration and development]
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Southern Africa’s water-energy nexus: towards regional integration and development
Many rural communities in Nepal experience considerable water stress during the dry season. Water storage systems (WSSs) have been proposed to supplement rain-fed irrigation and augment domestic water services in these communities. We evaluate household preferences for WSSs using a choice experim...
Price, J.I.
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Janmaat, J.
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Sugden, Fraser
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Bharati, Luna
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[Water storage systems and preference heterogeneity in water-scarce environments: a choice experiment in Nepal’s Koshi River Basin]
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Water storage systems and preference heterogeneity in water-scarce environments: a choice experiment in Nepal’s Koshi River Basin
The importance of water security has gained prominence on the international water agenda, but the focus seems to be directed towards water demand. An essential element of water security is the functioning of public organizations responsible for water supply through direct and indirect security ap...
Wegerich, Kai
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Rooijen, Daniel J. van
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Soliev, I.
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Mukhamedova, N.
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[Water security in the Syr Darya Basin]
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Water security in the Syr Darya Basin
Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) has planned to harness water from outside the valley from Melamchi as an inter-basin project to supply water inside the ring road (core valley area) of the Kathmandu Valley (KV). The project, called the “Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP)”, is expecte...
Thapa, Bhesh Raj
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Ishidaira, H.
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Pandey, Vishnu Prasad
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Bhandari, T.M.
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Shakya, N.M.
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[Evaluation of water security in Kathmandu Valley before and after water transfer from another basin]
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Evaluation of water security in Kathmandu Valley before and after water transfer from another basin