Rethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structure

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Institute
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.number007
dc.contributor.authorInternational Water Management Institute
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-13T11:16:56Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-13T11:16:56Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/37888
dc.titleRethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structureen
dcterms.abstractApproaching the rehabilitation of the 50-100 year-old irrigation tanks?spread across Rajasthan, South Bihar, Madya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and other South Asian locations such as Sri Lanka?solely from an irrigation perspective, runs the risk of depriving communities of valuable socio-ecological services and functions that these structures provide today. These tanks may have become ?inefficient? in their original function of providing flow irrigation, but as they have degraded over time, they have evolved into valuable systems that support people?s livelihoods in a number of ways. In addition to storing water for crop irrigation, tanks provide services such as recharge of groundwater used by adjacent communities, fertile silted soil that allows cultivation of additional crops, fishing and aquaculture, water for raising livestock, and sand and soil used by small industries.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationInternational Water Management Institute, IWMI-TATA Water Policy Program. 2003. Rethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structure. Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 6p. (IWMI Water Policy Briefing 007) https://hdl.handle.net/10568/37888en
dcterms.isPartOfIWMI Water Policy Briefingen
dcterms.issued2003
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Water Management Institute
dcterms.subjecttank irrigationen
dcterms.subjectrehabilitationen
dcterms.typeBrief

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