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Developing and Demonstrating Community-Based Water Resources Management
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Land degradation in Nepal has led to water scarcity, severely affecting Nepal’s hills and mountainous regions. Better water resources management approaches are badly needed to prevent soil erosion and increase agricultural productivity. This PDA will help develop such approaches for Nepal’s rural communities. |
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In Nepal, poor land management has led to increasing water problems. Soil erosion, soil degradation, and declining soil fertility caused by massive deforestation, have increased surface runoff and contributed to the decrease of groundwater resources. For most people in Nepal, water has become a scarce commodity, and improved water management practices have become critical to ensure availability of drinking water, better agricultural production, and improved living conditions.
ADB’s ongoing Community Managed Irrigated Agriculture Sector Project (CMIASP), which began in 2006, implements farmer-managed irrigation system improvements and micro-irrigation. Under this loan, water user associations (WUA) are being supported to take over ownership of irrigation systems and undertake operations and maintenance trainings.
This PDA will introduce water resources management approaches to complement irrigation systems being develop under CMIASP. These approaches will include WUA-driven activities within selected CMIASP areas for improving sloping agriculture, watershed management, and soil stabilization. Partnering for this PDA are the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Developments and ECARDS-Nepal, an environmental nongovernment organization.
This PDA aims to develop and demonstrate approaches for community-based water resources management that will respond to specific conditions of hill and mountain ecosystems. In particular, it will develop approaches for appropriate water harvesting and utilization and soil management techniques and systems.
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