Integrated Water Resources Management: Putting Good Theory into Real Practice. Central Asian Experience

This book is aimed at a wide range of specialists – water management professionals, including policy-makers in the water sector who define trends and meaning of modern reforms of water governance and management.

At the same time, this book is also intended for a wide range of civil society representatives interested in implementing proper reforms within water management. Content of this book allows readers to recognize that civil society and nature all over the world are facing serious problems concerning water resources. At present, these challenges cannot be tackled efficiently using the customary, prevalent during last decades, traditions, governance structure, and methods of water management. Therefore, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is here treated as a promising new approach to solve above-mentioned problems. The experiences gained while introducing this new approach to Central Asia are generalized in the present book.

Team of authors: Professor V. Dukhovny, V. Sokolov, H. Manthrithilake (IWMI), J. Kazbekov, O. Anarbekov, N. Mirzaev, M. Pinkhasov, A. Alimjanov, Sh. Mukhamedjanov, S. Nerozin, A. Galustyan, M. Khorst, G. Stulina, D. Ziganshina, R. Masumov, A. Kadyrov, P. Umarov, I. Begimov, V. Khegay, A. Tuchin, S. Zherelyeva, E. Roshenko and others;

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION - IWRM BACKGROUND

CHAPTER I. IWRM PRINCIPLES

    1.1. Management within the Hydro-Geographical Boundaries or according to the Hydrological Principle

    1.2. Accounting and Use of All Kinds of Water Resources

    1.3. Cross-sectoral Integration of Water Users (Horizontally)

    1.4. Coordinating Different Levels of the Water Management Hierarchy (Vertically)

    1.5 Participatory Water Resources Management and the Government’s Role

    1.6. Environmental Approach: Nature is an Equal Partner

    1.7. Principle Concern: Water Conservation and Rational Water Use

    1.8. Information Management System – Management and Feedback Instrument

CHAPTER II WATER GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT-THEORY AND PRACTICE

CHAPTER III. IWRM INDICATORS

CHAPTER IV LESSONS LEARNED FROM IWRM IMPLEMENTATION IN CENTRAL ASIA

    4.1 Pilot Projects on IWRM Implementation

    4.2. Aspects of Transboundary Water Resources Management

    4.3. Water Resources Governance and Management at the Level of Irrigation Systems

    4.4. Water Governance and Management at the Level of Water Users Associations

    4.5. IWRM in Action through Establishing Effective Groups of Water Users

    4.6. A Role of Drainage Infrastructure in the Frame of IWRM

      4.6.1. Developing Drainage Infrastructure in the Aral Sea Basin: the Past and Present

      4.6.2. A Role of Drainage in IWRM

      4.6.3. Selecting the Drainage Parameters and Their Correlation with Irrigation Practice

    4.7 The End User of Water and the Extension Service for Farmers

      4.7.1 Developing the Extension Services in Kyrgyzstan

      4.7.2 Developing the Extension Services in Tajikistan

      4.7.3 Developing the Extension Services in Uzbekistan

    4.8 Social Mobilization as the Base for Successful Progression of IWRM

CHAPTER 5 INSTRUMENTS FOR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

    5.1. IWRM Toolbox

    5.2 Monitoring Water Sources and Water Use

    5.3 Evaluating and Managing Water Demands

    5.4. Water Allocation including On-the-fly Adjusting the Plans of Water Use

      5.4.1 Planning Water Use at the Level of WUAs - the Plan of Daily Water Use based on the Irrigation Schedule

    5.5. Automation of the Water Distribution Systems

    5.6. Water Use Aimed at Enhancing Land and Water Productivity

      5.6.1 Management of Irrigation and Agricultural Practice Based on State-of-the-Art Technological and Engineering Methods for Achieving Efficient Use of Land and Water Resources and Sustainable Crop Yields at the Field Level

      5.6.2 Water-Saving Methods Used on Project Demonstration Sites

    5.7 Conflicts Resolution: Types of Conflicts and Mechanisms of Their Resolution at the WUA’s Level

      5.7.1 Conflicts and Disputes among Water Users, between Water Users and WUAs, and between WUAs and Water Management Organizations

      5.7.2. Analyzing the Existing Mechanisms for Settling Disputes and Conflicts between Water Users, between Water Users and WUAs, between WUAs and Water Management Organization Coupled with National Legislations in Force in the Fergana Valley

      5.7.3. Recommendations and Proposals on Developing Additional Legal Instruments for Dispute Resolution in Fergana Valley’s Countries

    5.8. Financial and Economic Instruments

    5.9. Capacity Building and Training are Key Tools for Implementing IWRM

    5.10. Gender Aspects of IWRM

    CHAPTER VI PROSPECTS OF IMPLEMENTING IWRM IN THE REGION

    6.1. Developing the National Water Policy

    6.2. The IWRM Introduction Process and a Role of Strategic Planning

    6.3 The Public Awareness Campaign

    6.4. Water and Education

    6.5. Climate changes - is good or evil for the water sector?

    6.6. Water and Globalization: Impacts on Central Asia

    CONCLUSION

    REFERENCES

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