Innovative solutions for intractable water problems in the face of climate change in southern and East African sub regio...
The Contribution of Improvements in Irrigation Efficiency to Environmental Flows
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Increasing irrigation efficiency is often assumed to be a means of saving water and a route to increasing irrigated agricultural production or making water available for other purposes, such as communities, industry or ecosystems. There is a growing body of literature arguing that increasing irrigation efficiency does not reduce consumptive water u...
Equitable and Reasonable Utilization: Reconstructing the Nile Basin Water Allocation Dialogue
Equitable and reasonable utilization is a core principle in the distribution of water resources. However, its practical application in the Nile Basin has been a significant challenge, leading to a water allocation deadlock. To address the deadlock, we used the van Eeten (1999) four-step process for defining new agendas. To reconstruct the debate, n...
Critical Factors for Water Policy to Enable Effective Environmental Flow Implementation
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
During the last two decades many countries have recognized the integral part that environmental flows should play in water management and have incorporated environmental flow provisions as they have updated water policy. This brief sets out generic recommendations for governments and other stakeholders on factors that, if reflected in policy framew...
Embrace diversity: (un)divided Hebron: coexistence through architecture of water
Water scarcity and unequal distribution of water to different social groups is a problem around the world - mostly in arid and dry climatological conditions. In Israel and the Palestinian Territories water is used as a territorial tool in what I call 'spaces of conflict and opposition'. What could the role of e.g. an architect be in spaces of confl...
Pakistan’s Water Apportionment Accord of 1991: 25 years and beyond
The apportionment of waters of the Indus River System between the provinces of Pakistan is widely hailed as a historic agreement. This agreement (herein referred to as the Accord) was signed into effect in 1991, just over 25 years ago. The Accord lacks a clearly stated objective and hence it is difficult to review the Accord against its objective. ...
The "trickle down" of integrated water resources management: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water...
Emergence, interpretation and translations of IWRM in South Africa
Water allocation, customary practice and the right to water: rethinking the regulatory model / In Langford, M.; Russell,...
Beyond “More Crop per Drop”: evolving thinking on agricultural water productivity
This Research Report chronicles the evolution of thinking on water productivity in the research agenda of IWMI and in the broader irrigation literature over the past 20 years. It describes the origins of the concept and the methodological developments, its operationalization through applied research, and some lessons learned over the two decades of...
