, especially in agriculture, where much irrigation water generates little value-added. The government has subsidised the use of … more efficient irrigation technology at considerable budgetary cost, which has contributed to a modest reduction of water … use in irrigation in recent years. The participatory approach in water policy governance should be extended further to …

In this paper, we focus on resource conservation in a model of decentralized management of groundwater and rainwater … the decentralized management. More precisely, we consider identical farmers who can use two water resources (groundwater …

Basin Irrigation System (IBIS), the Indus Basin Replacement Works (1960-1980) and the Indus Basin Salinity Control Efforts … (1960-2000). The paper then looks at the IBIS irrigation and salinity control investments that have taken place over the … (particularly through lining canals), (3) Controlling Groundwater and controlling salinity (by discouraging excessive tube-well use …

incorporating conveyance losses, canal return flows, and groundwater recharge. The first-best shadow price of surface water is … farmers near the headworks use irrigation water in the optimal program, and only farmers more distant from the headworks … extract groundwater. We also illustrate the possibility of reswitching in the sequence of resource use. It may be efficient …

working of irrigation institutions, the present study reveals that successful management of irrigation is contingent upon the … level of participation of the water users in the management. By comparing irrigation institutions under different property … rights, the study identifies the significant factors that contribute to the success and sustainability of irrigation …

specified quantities of water for agricultural purposes. Some water is extracted through large-scale irrigation infrastructure … draining soils benefit most from irrigation, possibly because the water is retained for longer on these properties. Drier areas … appear to benefit more from irrigation than do areas with higher rainfall. Farms that are situated close to towns derive …

-shaped function of consumption. Using non-cooperative game theory, very poor groups of users are shown to have lower probability of …

wilting point respectivelly) were registered every year. The use of the irrigation determined the improve of the water … researches sustain the irrigation opportunity for sustainable agriculture in the North-Western Romania. …