Governance issues for sustainable management of village irrigation in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

Village irrigation systems (ViSs) are vital in rural livelihood, food, and water security. VISs include small (minor) tanks and diversions (anicuts). The hydrologically linked tanks with natural drainage patterns form cascades, and beyond food and water security, they play a significant role in miti...

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Main Authors Imbulana, Upali, Aheeyar, Mohamed, Amarasinghe, Upali A, Amarnath, Giriraj
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.12.2023
Edition615
Subjects
Agribusiness
Arid zones
Climate change
Climate resilience
Communities
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Drainage canals
Drought
Floods
Irrigation management
Irrigation systems
River basins
Sri Lanka
Sustainability
Tanks
Villages
Water governance
Water management
Water resources
Water security
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DOI10.22004/ag.econ.344115

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Summary:Village irrigation systems (ViSs) are vital in rural livelihood, food, and water security. VISs include small (minor) tanks and diversions (anicuts). The hydrologically linked tanks with natural drainage patterns form cascades, and beyond food and water security, they play a significant role in mitigating flood and drought impacts on communities in river basins. With anthropogenic changes, many cascades are in depilated states now. This paper finds that policy support with legal recognition to cascade-based community-level institutions promote bottom-up water and natural resources management approaches. They also facilitate investigations of ill-defined subject areas in cascade management and complex socio-political and economic issues and challenges constraining sustainable cascade based VISs operations.
DOI:10.22004/ag.econ.344115