Trade in virtual water, the substitution of the use of scarce water resources for agricultural production by importing food from water-rich countries has been said to be a potential solution to water crises and water conflicts throughout water-stressed regions worldwide. While trade in fo... Read More
More than 50% of South Africa's catchments are deemed to be over-allocated. The challenge is to find ways to bring the over-allocated catchments back into balance in a manner that does not shock the socio-economic fabric of the country. The logical starting point is to try to do better wi... Read More
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 foc... Read More
The objective of this study is to assess the performance of irrigation water management of the Bursa-Karacabey irrigation scheme (KIS) located in the western Turkey. The study was carried out in two stages. In the first stage, performance of irrigation water management was assessed using ... Read More
Climate change, uncertain future water supplies, growing population, and increased water demands continue to raise the importance of finding cost-effective water conservation measures. Irrigated agriculture is the world's largest water user, so governments, donor organizations, water supp... Read More
With the urbanisation drive comes steady growth in urban water demand. Although in the past this new demand could often be met by tapping unclaimed water sources, this option is increasingly untenable in many regions where little if any unclaimed water remains. The result is that urban water capt... Read More
Temporary water trading is an established and growing phenomenon in the Australian irrigation sector. However, decision support and planning tools that incorporate economic and biophysical factors associated with temporary water trading are lacking. In this paper the integration of an economic tr... Read More
To better conserve, protect, and ensure affordable access to water requires proper pricing, integration of environmental concerns into agriculture policy, better information, awareness and education, increased financing for investment and improved governance. The article summarizes policy... Read More
Decentralization of irrigation management is now one of the priorities of governments across the world and different funding agencies to cope with the managerial crisis of water service delivery. In India, the state governments have recently initiated participatory irrigation management t... Read More
A participatory irrigation management policy has been adopted by the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation over the past two decades to support agricultural productivity, decrease open-channel conveyance losses, and increase agricultural water distribution equity. Two recent... Read More
