A case of groundwater depletion in Balochistan, Pakistan: Enter into the void

Steenbergen, Frank van; Kaisarani, Allah Bakhsh; Khan, Niamat Ullah; Gohar, Mohammed Shamshad

doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2014.11.003

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“…The results also show that the amount of the blue water footprint, as a result of CD, was mitigated by 24 m 3 t À1 (13.2%) in the CD treatment (being equal to 156 m 3 t À1 ), in comparison with the FD treatment (being equal to 179 m 3 t À1 ). However, it is worth mentioning that these values were much less than the average value of the blue water footprint estimated for sugarcane in Pakistan (Van Steenbergen et al, 2015;Scarpare et al, 2016). This reduction may be explained by the effect of CD on mitigating water and nutrient leakage, and increasing crop yield by providing a thicker layer of the saturated root zone and capillary action.…”

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confidence: 87%

Reduction of Sugarcane Water Footprint by Controlled Drainage, in Khuzestan, Iran

Jahani

Mohammadi

Nasseri

et al. 2017

Irrigation and Drainage

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The main objective of this study was to estimate the different components of the water footprint for sugarcane production under the conditions of free (FD) and controlled drainage (as an on‐farm strategy for agricultural water management, CD) in an arid and semi‐arid region in the south‐west of Iran (Khuzestan Province). The different components of the water footprint (green, blue and grey) were assessed based on on‐farm measurements. The total amount of water footprint for sugarcane production in the study area stood at 250 m3t−1 in the treatment FD. Of this, 12.2, 71.8 and 16.0% were of the green, blue and grey water footprints, respectively. By using CD this value was reduced to 203 m3t−1 in total, of which, 13.7, 76.8 and 9.5% were of the green, blue and grey water footprints, respectively. This decrease in the amount of water footprint seems to be mainly a result of an increase in crop productivity (due to soil condition improvement), reduction of the in‐ and outflow of the sugarcane farm and also reduction of nitrate losses in the CD treatment. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Reduction of Sugarcane Water Footprint by Controlled Drainage, in Khuzestan, Iran

Jahani

Mohammadi

Nasseri

et al. 2017

Irrigation and Drainage

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“…There has been rapid increase in drilling over the last 20 years resulting in some major benefits but with accompanying disadvantages until 1989 almost 22 percent area of land in the province was irrigated from underground source such as Karez, springs open well and tube well, by 1998 however land irrigated from these sources was 34.5 percent, tube well along accounting for 22.8 percent. Domestic water requirement is largely fulfill from groundwater (Steenbergen et al, 2015).United Nations in 2005 report reflects that the ESCWA regions are contributing 4.5 percent of world's total population, however, world's fresh water only available at 0.62 perecnt in such areas.…”

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Multi-Dimensional Implication Of Water Scarcity On Inhabitants Of District Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan

Barrech¹,

Ainuddin²,

Kakar³

2020

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Water is the fundamental need of living beings. It is necessary for manageable advancement, including the protection of common habitat, mitigation of destitution and craving. Like other nations a number of areas in Pakistan are also facing the problem of water scarcity. The present investigation has been made to explore various implications of water scarcity on inhabitants of Quetta district Balochistan. The study depends on essential information gathered from agriculturists and different personals through focused group discussions and questionnaire survey. Stratified random sampling method was used whereas the sample size comprised of 400. For analyzing the data, chi-square method is applied to find out the existing relationships between variables, where alpha value is standardised at 0.05. Although no association could be established among the study groups, however, the results clearly indicated that the level of ground and surface water is scarce. The scarcity of Water has negatively impacted the agriculture, trees, economy and health of the people in the study area. The scarcity of water has also compelled people for migration to other areas. The results suggested that government should make further dams, guiding the population and the farmers on proper use of water and advocating the general public to obey regulations regarding water mining.

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“…Accommodating strategies are also generally positive as they are basically adoption strategies intending to improve irrigation infrastructure and management practices as well as shifting to more water‐efficient crops. However, contractive strategies are negative actions and refer to plans to sell land and/or reduce irrigated areas (Van Steenbergen et al , ).…”

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Farmers' Adaptation to Groundwater Shortage in the Dry Areas: Improving Appropriation or Enhancing Accommodation?

Frija¹,

Chebil

Speelman

2016

Irrig. and Drain.

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The objective of this paper is to identify farmers' strategies to adapt to groundwater shortage in vulnerable arid areas of south Tunisia. In the selected area, the potential of rainfed agriculture is very limited and groundwater is the only source of irrigation. With intensive overuse of groundwater signs of groundwater table depletion are starting to appear and farmers are becoming more concerned about water shortage. Based on a survey among farmers, we proceeded with a ‘principal component factors’ analysis followed by a ‘hierarchical clustering’ using Ward's method, in order to investigate different farmers' adaptation behaviour when faced with groundwater shortage. A set of relevant variables were used for this purpose. The cluster analysis generates three groups of farmers based on their irrigation practices, types of irrigation investment, and other related structural variables. A first group is formed by large farmers who combine both expansive strategies, by investing in enhancing groundwater appropriation, and accommodating strategies, by enhancing on‐farm management of the available resource. The second type of farmers are small and mainly focus on expansive strategies, while the third group is also composed of small farmers demonstrating purely contractive strategies, referring to reduced scale of farm operation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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A case of groundwater depletion in Balochistan, Pakistan: Enter into the void

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Reduction of Sugarcane Water Footprint by Controlled Drainage, in Khuzestan, Iran

Reduction of Sugarcane Water Footprint by Controlled Drainage, in Khuzestan, Iran

Multi-Dimensional Implication Of Water Scarcity On Inhabitants Of District Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan

Farmers' Adaptation to Groundwater Shortage in the Dry Areas: Improving Appropriation or Enhancing Accommodation?

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