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Book (series)Revaluing multiple-use water services for food and water security 2023
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No results found.Water is an indispensable resource that lies at the heart of sustenance and prosperity for communities worldwide. In low- and middle-income countries, households and communities have long relied on a single water source to fulfil a multitude of needs, encompassing drinking, washing, cooking, livestock raising, and irrigation. Traditional water supply systems have served as hydraulic structures for multiple purposes, catering to diverse water requirements. As countries progressed towards modernization, the emphasis shifted towards single-use water infrastructure, inadvertently neglecting the multifaceted nature of water demands that contribute to people's livelihoods. In developing countries, water resources management centered around large-scale irrigation and water development projects to spur economic growth. Infrastructure, institutions, policies, and practices were organized around single-use sectors. Consequently, prevailing models of water modernization unintentionally disregarded or even discouraged the acknowledgement of multiple uses. -
Book (stand-alone)Multiple uses of water services in large irrigation systems
Auditing and planning modernization The MASSMUS Approach
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No results found.The use of water is essentially multiple and people live in environments supported by water. These two fundamentals seem to be straightforward common sense; in fact, the patterns of water management are not included. The inheritance of the ‘silo’ approach has mostly led to clear-cut sectoral approaches in the water sector where water agencies are mainly organized around a single use of water. What has been observed, however, and noted throughout rural and urban areas is that multiple u ses of water within a water infrastructure command area is more common than single use. Multiple uses of water may be the result of a multipurpose scheme’s design, or more frequently arises from local practices. Most water systems are run on the principle of ‘non exclusion’: once built it is almost impossible to prevent local people from using the water for any needs for which they have no alternative. Not having any other water source people living near the irrigation infrastructure will use the water for their animals, bathing, domestic use, the environment and fishing. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetThe Multiple Goods and Services of Asian Rice Production Systems 2014
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