Status of Institutional Reforms for Integrated Water Resources Management in Asia: Indications from Policy Reviews in Five Countries

water resource management / institutional development / water policy / water resources development / case studies / water shortage / river basins / water conservation / irrigation management / water law / drinking water / cost recovery / water pollution / national planning / Asia / China/ Indonesia / Philippines / Sri Lanka / Thailand /

Design and practice of water allocation rules: lessons from warabandi in Pakistan's Punjab

Water management / Irrigation management / Water allocation / Watercourses / Water distribution / Design / Irrigation scheduling / Social aspects / Economic aspects / Water users / Distributary canals / Pakistan / Punjab

Inception report on the Technical Assistance study (T.A. No. 1481-PAK): Crop based irrigation operations in the NWFP

Irrigation systems / Irrigation practices / Cropping systems / Water requirements / Pakistan

Moving towards demand-based operations in modernized irrigation systems in Pakistan

Irrigation management / Crops / Water requirements / Irrigated farming / Intensive cropping / Crop-based irrigation / Modernization / Water demand / Pakistan / North West Frontier Province

Institutional factors affecting irrigation performance in Pakistan: research and policy priorities

The strong irrigation tradition has sustained the broad based community interest in irrigation. The result is a very complex institutional milieu in which a set of formally established irrigation rules and organizations exists side by side with an intricate set of social institutions. The two sets act like a dual system often in conflict with each other. The authors, while analyzing the present institutional barriers, have highlighted the importance of irrigation rules and procedures in the institutional framework.Irrigation management, Performance evaluation, Institutions, Poverty, Legislation, Food Security and Poverty, Institutional and Behavioral Economics,

Institutional factors affecting irrigation performance in Pakistan: Research and policy priorities

Irrigation managementPerformance evaluationInstitutionsPovertyLegislation

Warabandi in Pakistan's canal irrigation systems: Widening gap between theory and practice

Irrigation scheduling / Irrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Privatization / Water rights / Social aspects / Economic aspects / Watercourses / Water supply / Equity / Water distribution / Water users' associations / Pakistan / Punjab

Distributed Hydrologic Modeling for Streamflow Prediction at Ungauged Basins

Hydrologic modeling and streamflow prediction of ungauged basins is an unsolved scientific problem as well as a policy-relevant science theme emerging as a major challenge to the hydrologic community. One way to address this problem is to improve hydrologic modeling capability through the use of spatial data and spatially distributed physically based models. This dissertation is composed of three papers focused on 1) the use of spatially distributed hydrologic models with spatially distributed precipitation inputs, 2) advanced multi-objective calibration techniques that estimate parameter uncertainty and use stream gauge and temperature data from multiple locations, and 3) an examination of the relationship between high-resolution soils data and streamflow recession for use in a priori parameter estimation in ungauged catchments. This research contributes to the broad quest to reduce uncertainty in predictions at ungauged basins by integrating developments of innovative modeling techniques with analyses that advance our understanding of natural systems

Institutional perspectives of land reclamation operations in Punjab: A case study of the Lower Chenab Canal (East) Circle Area

Land reclamationSoil salinityIrrigated sitesIrrigation canalsIrrigation waterInstitutionsLegal aspectsIrrigation schedulingWater availabilityIrrigated farmingCase studies