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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochurePiloting irrigation water monitoring system for paddy fields in Sri Lanka
Promoting productive water use and efficient water management in paddy fields
2025Also available in:
No results found.As global water demand rises, efficient irrigation is crucial for sustainable agriculture, especially for water-intensive crops like rice. The project “Promoting productive water use and efficient water management in paddy fields,” funded by the Government of Japan and implemented by FAO, aims to enhance agricultural productivity in Sri Lanka and Zambia through improved water use efficiency. By establishing pilot sites, the project will showcase effective water management practices, build stakeholder capacities, and promote value-added paddy fields. Given Sri Lanka's challenges with climate change and water scarcity, an advanced irrigation monitoring system is essential for optimizing water usage, reducing drought risks, and improving food security for rural communities. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureImproved Water Resources Monitoring System/ Integrated Water Resources Management at regional level in Lebanon
Managing assets of the irrigation system
2021Also available in:
No results found.In many areas of the world, including the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region and Lebanon, sustainable and reliable delivery of water for irrigation and municipal use has become increasingly complex. This issue also extends to affect the protection of the ecosystems from water pollution. Particularly, if the overall demand is outstripping supply, the delivery of water is often less about engineering, although it is still required. The issue is more often related to the governance of the resources to manage and protect them from pollution and over-abstraction, resolve conflicts over water, and ensure rights to water are respected. It is also about understanding water flow pathways in complex river basin systems. This is where water monitoring and accounting can play a crucial role to help water management institutions in managing complexity in light of the challenges facing the water sector. In this context, FAO, in collaboration with the North Lebanon Water Establishment, which represents the Ministry of Water and Energy, is implementing the GCP/LEB/029/SWI project ‘Improved Water Resources Monitoring System/Integrated Water Resources Management at regional level in Lebanon’, funded by the Swiss Government. The main objective of the project is to strengthen Lebanon’s water institutions improving their performance at regional level. In particular, Output (3) of the project ‘Watershed Prototype Monitoring System is developed, management authorities empowered, and their capacity is enhanced to operate the system - including preparation of a business plan to operate the monitoring system’, aims at building institutional monitoring capacities. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureImproved Water Resources Monitoring System/Integrated Water Resources Management at regional level in Lebanon
Water accounting tool
2021Also available in:
No results found.In many areas of the world, including the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region and Lebanon, sustainable and reliable delivery of water for irrigation and municipal use has become increasingly complex. This issue also extends to affect the protection of the ecosystems from water pollution. Particularly, if the overall demand is outstripping supply, the delivery of water is often less about engineering, although it is still required. The issue is more often related to the governance of the resources to manage and protect them from pollution and over-abstraction, resolve conflicts over water, and ensure rights to water are respected. It is also about understanding water flow pathways in complex river basin systems. This is where water monitoring and accounting can play a crucial role to help water management institutions in managing complexity in light of the challenges facing the water sector. In this context, FAO, in collaboration with the North Lebanon Water Establishment (NLWE), which represents the Ministry of Water and Energy, is implementing the GCP/LEB/029/SWI project ‘Improved Water Resources Monitoring System/Integrated Water Resources Management at regional level in Lebanon’, funded by the Swiss Government. The main objective of the project is to strengthen Lebanon’s water institutions improving their performance at regional level. In particular, Output (4) of the project ‘Water accounting tool’, aims at supporting more effective decision-making at regional level by generating information regarding the vegetation state, leaf area index, biomass production, evapotranspiration (ET) mapping, through remote sensing.
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