Local Perception of the Multifunctionality of Water Tanks in Two Villages of Tamil Nadu, South India

Reyes‐García, Victoria; Aubriot, Olivia; Ariza-Montobbio, Pere; Galán, E.; Serrano-Tovar, Tarik; Martínez-Alier, Joan

doi:10.1080/08941920802506240

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“…Others investigate influencing factors such as heterogeneity (Reyes- Garcia et al, 2011), group size (Poteete and Ostrom, 2004), and social capital in local resources management (Coleman, 1988;Uphoff, 2000;Pretty, 2003;Poteete and Ostrom, 2004;Adger, 2010) and more specifically the roles of social capital in collective action and CPRs governance (Pretty and Ward, 2001;Bowles and Gintis, 2002;Pretty, 2003;Mosse, 2006;Bouma et al, 2008;Jones et al, 2012). Social capital is ''features of social organization such as networks, norms and trust that facilitate coordination and co-operation for mutual benefit'' (Putnam et al, 1994).…”

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confidence: 98%

Governance of the irrigation commons under integrated water resources management – A comparative study in contemporary rural China

Hai-yan

Edmunds

Lora‐Wainwright

et al. 2016

Environmental Science & Policy

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confidence: 98%

Governance of the irrigation commons under integrated water resources management – A comparative study in contemporary rural China

Hai-yan

Edmunds

Lora‐Wainwright

et al. 2016

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…The proper management of runoff water leads to rainfall -surface water inside a catchment could be a beneficial resource of water to supply high demands [5]. The administration can receive societal endurance of tank rehabilitation projects if they could tackle the multifaceted issues and concede that irrigation tanks benefit the common people in addition to farmers [16]. The surveillance of irrigating crops & inaccessible areas like contours of reservoir water is made easier by Remote sensing techniques which involve reduced manpower, are cost-effective, precise [9].…”

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A Gis-Based Parametric Analysis of Irrigational Tanks in the Oldest Civilized City in India-Madurai

Praveenkumar¹,

Pa²,

Kannan³

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The irrigational tanks being traditional Water harvesting structures designed by rulers and chieftains dating back centuries. These are constructed in such a way that they act as a major water resource in drought-prone rural communities. The main aim of this paper is to develop a GIS-based Parametric Maps of Maximum Capacity(MC), Maximum Water Level(MWL), Ayacut Area(AA), Water Spread Area(WSA), Sub-basins and Basins of irrigational Tanks which form the basic irrigation information system to assist agriculturalists, farmers, and Government organization for the proper maintenance of irrigation tanks with suitable indexing parameters, to mitigate & forecast the water and food requirements by evaluating currently available water for the given population density and irrigation lands. The study area selected is the oldest civilized city in India which is in the state of Tamilnadu-Madurai district, which is served by the Vaigai River and consists of 1338 tanks. This GIS-based information system assists the decision-makers to perform surveillance, evaluate the efficiency of the tank at any space & time and take proper managerial methods to utilize the resources economically.

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“…Farmers report that traditional institutions, norms and rules have often been able to successfully address this challenge. Since the colonial times, however, state interference has weakened customary rules, leading to the gradual decline in the importance of minor irrigation dams since the 19th century (Reyes-Garcia et al, 2011;Raju and Shah, 2000;Palanisami and Meinzen-Dick, 2001).…”

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Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India

Falk

Kumar

Srigiri

2019

Agricultural Water Management

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Since the 1990s, India invested more than one billion USD in participatory watershed development. Amongst other interventions, the rehabilitation of small-scale water harvesting infrastructure is a main focus. Nevertheless, despite its multiple economic and ecological benefits, many communities fail to maintain the structures. External support in this regard focuses largely on the promotion of blueprint solutions such as community water funds or organizational capacity development of Water User Associations. Little attention is paid to supporting the communities in developing rules related to the actual water and water infrastructure management. In this study we explored how experimental games closely framed to local conditions can help to better understand coordination challenges and develop institutional capacities related to managing small village reservoirs in Rajasthan/India. We played artefactual public good experiments with 300 water managers and combined the games with discussions. The approach created awareness for the cooperation challenges, facilitated debate related to possible solutions and helped to better understand cooperation patterns. Our results suggest that participants were playing substantially better than the predictions of standard economic theory but also substantially better than the behavior observed in real life. The discussions showed that the players connected the game to their real life experiences. They highlighted challenges but also gave examples where cooperation in the community is working well. The games allowed them to experiment in a compressed way with different institutions which deepened the discussion.

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Local Perception of the Multifunctionality of Water Tanks in Two Villages of Tamil Nadu, South India

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Governance of the irrigation commons under integrated water resources management – A comparative study in contemporary rural China

Governance of the irrigation commons under integrated water resources management – A comparative study in contemporary rural China

A Gis-Based Parametric Analysis of Irrigational Tanks in the Oldest Civilized City in India-Madurai

Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India

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