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Rehabilitation Planning for Small Tanks in Cascades: A Methodology Based on Rapid Assessment
R. Sakthivadivel; N. Fernando; J.D. Brewer / International Water Management Institute , 1997
This report argues that irrigation system rehabilitation planning must take place within a basin context. That is, the impacts of system improvements on other users in the basin must be assessed to av...
Water Distribution Rules and Water Distribution Performance: A Case Study in the Tambrapani System
J.D. Brewer; R. Sakthivadivel; K.V. Raju / International Water Management Institute , 1997
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Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer: A Review of the Evidence
D.L. Vermillion / International Water Management Institute , 1997
Data from 29 different studies on irrigation management transfer are drawn together and evaluated to assess the impacts of transfer on various aspects of irrigation system management. Twelve guiding p...
Institutional Design Principles for Accountability in Larger Irrigation Systems
D.J. Merrey / International Water Management Institute , 1997
To varying degrees, an irrigation management agency may be either financially independent or financially dependent on outside sources for funding. In most dependent cases, it is the government that c...
Results of Management Turnover in Two Irrigation Districts in Colombia (Vermillion / Garces-Restrepo / IIMI)
International Water Management Institute , 1999
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Beyond more crop for drop: water management for food and the environment
F.R. Rijsberman; N. Manning / International Water Management Institute , 2006
Why is so much water used for irrigation? Raising the question in the context of unsustainable water consumption practices, this paper provides a clear overview of the issues and presents the steps th...
Locating the poor: spatially disaggregated poverty maps for Sri Lanka
U.A. Amarasinghe; M. Samad; M. Anputhas / International Water Management Institute , 2005
Sri Lanka has, historically, placed a high value on basic human needs. This has involved directing assistance to the rural areas to promote food security and employment, and assuring that the poor ha...
Bringing Hambantota back to normal
P. Weligamage; M. Anputhas; R. Ariyaratne / International Water Management Institute , 2005
Hambantota, a southern coastal district of Sri Lanka, was affected by the tsunami on 26th December 2004. The district records the third highest poverty incidence and is the poorest coastal district in...
Prospects for adopting system of rice intensification in Sri Lanka: a socioeconomic assessment
R.E. Namara; P. Weligamage; R. Barker / International Water Management Institute , 2003
There is increasing worldwide interest in assessing the potential for maintaining or increasing rice yields by reducing or eliminating the use of chemicals and by decreasing irrigation requirements, b...
Irrigation sector in Sri Lanka: recent investment trends and the development path ahead
M. Kikuchi; R. Barker; P. Weligamage; M. Samad / International Water Management Institute , 2002
Irrigation has arguably been the backbone of Sri Lanka’s rural and agricultural development. Much of the country’s success in achieving 90 per cent self-sufficiency in rice production can be attribut...

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