A simple water balance modelling approach for determining water availability in an irrigation tank cascade system
Analysis of return flows in a tank cascade system in Sri Lanka
Rethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structure
Approaching 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 th...
Rethinking tanks: opportunities for revitalizing irrigation tanks: empirical findings from Ananthapur District, Andhra P...
Evolution, present status and issues concerning small tank systems in Sri Lanka
Rethinking rehabilitation: socio-ecology of tanks and water harvesting in Rajasthan. Prepared for the IWMI-TATA Water Po...
In the arid and semi-arid Indian state of Rajasthan, tanks and ponds have been a mainstay of rural communities for centuries. This paper assesses a rehabilitation strategy proposed for 1200 large tanks. It argues that treating tanks only as flow irrigation systems is very likely to result in a flawed strategy. As the experience of NGOs work shows, ...
Evolution, present status and issues concerning small tank systems in Sri Lanka [Small tanks in Sri Lanka: evolution, pr...
The core of this study involved an examination and analysis of certain key features of the traditional small tank cascade systems: a) the location and design of the systems in the past b) the hydro-system which considers the overall hydrological balance and groundwater conditions c) maintenance and tank use d) tank management and integration with l...
Who should manage the tanks?: Irrigation Department, users' organization or private management agency?: a quest to find ...
Small irrigation tanks as a source of malaria mosquito vectors: a study in north-central Sri Lanka
Thousands of small irrigation reservoirs (tanks) exist in rice ecosystems in malarious regions of south Asia. The potential of these tanks to generate malaria-transmitting mosquitoes has not been adequately evaluated. Through a study of nine small irrigation tanks in north-central Sri Lanka, this report provides an assessment of the capacity of tan...
Predicting water availability in irrigation tank cascade systems: the cascade water balance model
Better water management in irrigation tank cascade systems is vital in achieving higher productive use of available water. To develop and implement management practices aimed at improving effective use of water, studies leading to the development of models that can predict available tank water in irrigation tank cascade systems are invaluable. This...
