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Community water harvesting structures’ status, management and socio-economic impacts : Case studies in Shivaliks foothills, Northern Himalayas, India

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Title Community water harvesting structures’ status, management and socio-economic impacts : Case studies in Shivaliks foothills, Northern Himalayas, India
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Creator Swarn Lata Arya
, Pradeep Dogra
Sharmistha Pal
V.K. Bhatt
 
Subject Community, Common property water resources, Demand, Ground water, Productivity, Supply, Water harvesting, Water markets
 
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There has been an increasing participation of communities for management
of common property water resources (CPWRs) as a means to reduce pressure
on government finances, and to improve efficiency and sustainability of
irrigation systems. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative surveys
conducted during 2010 and 2012 of 406 households in five villages located in
foothills of Shivalik region in Northern Himalayas, this paper analyses impact
of community based water storage structures on productivity, economic
efficiency and social aspects. Majority of surveyed beneficiary farmers (88%)
belonged to marginal and small categories owning less than 2 ha of cultivated
land, and are heavily dependent upon CPWRs for agriculture, animal
husbandry and domestic needs. Dependence on CPWRs for irrigation was
noticed to be higher of marginal farms than small farms indicating that
dependence on CPWRs decreased with increase in landholding size. Marginal
farmers' dependence on CPWRs for animal needs was absolute as this
category of farmers do not own private water source. The results evinced that
community based rain water harvesting structures have effectively
contributed to close existing gap between demand and supply of water for
its multiple usages. Augmentation of ground water recharge resulted in
installation of tube-wells which paved way for informal local water markets
by reallocation of water from surplus to scarcity farms and they are taken as a
coping strategy for managing water scarcity.
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Date 2020-06-15T11:02:40Z
2020-06-15T11:02:40Z
2018-06-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/37135
 
Language English
 
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