scholarly journals IoT Enabled Analysis of Irrigation Rosters in the Indus Basin Irrigation System

2016 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubakr Muhammad ◽  
Bilal Haider ◽  
Zahoor Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation System ◽  
Indus Basin ◽  
Basin Irrigation

Challenge and response in the Indus Basin

Water Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (S1) ◽  
pp. 58-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madison Condon ◽  
Don Kriens ◽  
Anjali Lohani ◽  
Erum Sattar
Keyword(s):  
River Flow ◽  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
River System ◽  
Indus Basin ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basin Irrigation ◽  
Indus Waters Treaty ◽  
Institutional Architecture

The authors examine the complex history of the development of the Indus Basin and the challenges faced by Pakistan during the evolution of the Indus Basin Irrigation System and the country's responses to date. The Indus river system must meet the multiple needs of agriculture, energy and flood security. Pakistan's constitutional structure, in which the federation shares overall responsibility for the operation of the Indus with the provinces, poses unique management and implementation challenges. What are the institutional arrangements Pakistan needs to address the challenges to the Indus Waters Treaty it signed with India in 1960? How is the country going to regulate the use of over-abstraction in the basin with the increased reliance on groundwater to maintain agricultural productivity? What are the institutional mechanisms in place to manage increased river flow variations from glacial melt as a result of climate change and for coping with devastating floods? At the same time, is the country maintaining adequate environmental flows to its delta? Provincial mistrust and a lack of institutional capacity underpins the history of the Indus in Pakistan with the Interprovincial Water Accord 1991 serving as a ray of hope on which to build a new institutional architecture of cooperation.

scholarly journals Pakistan: Indus Basin Water Strategy – Past, Present and Future

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 187-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahid Amjad Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation System ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Indus Basin ◽  
Salinity Control ◽  
Irrigation Water Use ◽  
Indus Delta ◽  
Basin Water ◽  
Basin Irrigation ◽  
Water Strategy

This paper looks at the Indus Basin Water Strategy for Pakistan. It begins with a historical overview of the Indus 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 last decade (2000-2010). The paper goes on to look at the present situation of the IBIS as well as discuss an IBIS strategy for the next decade. Finally, the paper discusses supply side and demand management strategies for IBIS. Overall, the paper concludes that Pakistan should focus on (1) Creating Additional Surface Storage, (2) Preserving surface water (particularly through lining canals), (3) Controlling Groundwater and controlling salinity (by discouraging excessive tube-well use), (4) Encouraging general efficiency of irrigation water use (through improved land management techniques), (5) Enhancing yields through improved farming practices, and (6) Fully meeting the environmental concerns of the Indus Delta, river systems and wetlands.

Command-scale integrated water management in response to spatial climate variability in Lower Bari Doab Canal irrigation system

Water Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Basharat ◽  
Ata-Ur-Rehman Tariq
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Indus Basin ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Canal Irrigation ◽  
Irrigation Cost ◽  
Groundwater Regime ◽  
Basin Irrigation ◽  
Scale Integration

Design and management of the Indus Basin Irrigation System are aimed at achieving equity in canal water supply. This concept, which is more than a century old, ignores the due aspect of groundwater management in today's perspective. Recent research has proved that variation in irrigation demand and rainfall within the irrigation units has given birth to varying stresses on groundwater. In response to spatial climate variability, reallocation of canal supplies from the head towards the tail of the Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC) command was evaluated in this study, with the objective of achieving equitable total irrigation costs. The ensuing groundwater regime was simulated for 50 years' time with a groundwater model. A 25% reallocation from head towards tail-end improves the standard deviation of total irrigation cost equity from 1905 to 241. This command scale integration of available water resources also demonstrated a net saving in groundwater pumping cost to the tune of 7.24 to 18.9%, in comparison with existing equitable canal supplies. With this approach, at least minimal or no waterlogging in the head-end area, even during wet years, and no groundwater mining in the tail-end, even during dry periods, are anticipated. In addition, this system-scale integrated water management would increase adaptive capacity to climate change adaptation.

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