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    Water Policy Brief : Banking on groundwater in times of change.

    International Water Management Institute, 2010
    Climate and other drivers of change continue to raise questions about the continued reliance on surface water resources, prompting countries to fundamentally rethink groundwater management strategies. In line with this debate, this policy brief makes three key observations:
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    Water storage in an era of climate change: addressing the challenge of increasing rainfall variability. Blue paper.

    International Water Management Institute, 2010
    Rainfall variability is a key constraint to agricultural production and economic growth in many developing countries. This is likely to be exacerbated in many places as rainfall variability is amplified (even where the total amount of rain increases) as a result of climate change.
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    Indexing the environmental vulnerability of mountain streams in Azerbaijan.

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    A simple environmental vulnerability assessment scheme is developed and illustrated using several streams in Azerbaijan as examples. Vulnerability of a river ecosystem is defined in terms of a combined impact of pressure factors such as water withdrawals, pollution, climate change impact on flow variability, and land use.
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    Addressing uncertainty in adaptation planning for agriculture

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    Paper examining four case studies to demonstrate uncertainty management approaches in short- and long-term adaptation planning.
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    Agricultural groundwater management in the Upper Bhima Basin, India: current status and future scenarios.

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    The basaltic aquifers of the Upper Bhima River basin in southern India are heavily utilized for small-scale agriculture but face increasing demand-related pressures along with uncertainty associated with climate change impacts. To evaluate likely groundwater resource impacts over the coming decades, a regional groundwater flow model for the basin was developed.
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    ACIAR Project on Opportunities to Improve the Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Water and Soil Resources for Coastal Agriculture in Vietnam and Australia. Final report.

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    Complementary to Vietnam’s national water resource strategies, the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)’s priorities for South Central Costal Vietnam (SCC VN) include development and promotion of sustainable practices to protect water resources. Between 2007 and 2012, ACIAR funded two projects in SCC VN.
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    Water storage: a contribution to climate change adaptation in Africa.

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    Water storage can help to safeguard livelihoods and reduce rural poverty. However, ill-conceived water storage will fail to deliver intended benefits and, in some cases, may worsen the negative impacts of climate change. More systematic planning is required to ensure suitable storage systems that support development targets, as an international research project demonstrates.
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    Water allocation with use of the Building Block Methodology (BBM) in the Godavari Basin, India.

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    Access to sufficient quantities of water of acceptable quality is a basic need for human beings and a pre-requisite to sustain and develop human welfare. In cases of limited availability, the allocation of water between different sectors can result in conflicts of interests.
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    Uncovering consistencies in Indian rainfall trends observed over the last half century

    International Water Management Institute, 2014
    Food security in India is tightly linked to rainfall variability. Trends in Indian rainfall records have been extensively studied but the subject remains complicated by the high spatiotemporal variability of rainfall arising from complex atmospheric dynamics. For various reasons past studies have often produced inconsistent results.
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    Influencing climate change policy in Sri Lanka

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    This paper discusses the research conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) which explored the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture and water resources in Sri Lanka. The recommendations contained in the research report were consequently adopted as part of the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy which had been under discussion since 2009.

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