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The Yellow River Basin (YRB) Focal Project set out to study water poverty, water
availability and access, water productivity, and water and related institutions in the
Yellow River basin to develop and rank a series of high-priority interventions aimed at
increasing water and food security for the poor, while maintaining environmental
sustainability. The YBFP identified complex relations between water and poverty in the
YRB; identified streamflow declines in the basin despite predicted higher rainfall;
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This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises
in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture
in the Basin is extensive with the construction of dams, barrages, and link canals to
distribute water, with modern engineering to support irrigation starting as early as the
mid 1800s.
Net runoff is about 10% of total precipitation. Irrigated agriculture covers 20% of
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Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, South-Eastern Asia
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The Mekong Basin covers six
countries, the River rises in China, but there are substantial downstream tributaries
from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and from a small area in Myanmar. A
unique feature is the reverse flow from the Mekong to the Tonle Sap via the Tonle Sap
River at the height of the wet season flow and its ebb as the river levels fall.
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This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the São Francisco basin in South America. The São Francisco Basin lies wholly
within Brazil. There are several major dams and wetlands in the Basin.
Net runoff is about 16% of total precipitation. Grassland is the most extensive land use,
covering 59% of the Basin and uses 48% of the water. Rainfed agriculture covers 23%
of the basin, but uses 14% of the water in the Basin. Forest and woodland cover 16% of
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This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har
Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A
unique feature of the river is the large amount of silt it carries.
Net runoff is about 14% of total precipitation. Forest and woodland cover 9% of the
basin and use about 15% of the precipitation. Grassland covers much of the upper part
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South Africa, Southern Africa
This report is a synthesis of research implemented for the project on Wetlands-based livelihoods in the Limpopo basin: balancing social welfare and environmental security. The research was motivated by the dependency of many people on wetlands for their livelihoods. It was therefore founded on the basis that the potential of wetlands to contribute to livelihoods is closely related to their ability to maintain ecosytem functions (such as regulating river flows), which is a consequence of their unique hydrological characteristics.
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The project ‘Water Productivity Improvement of Cereals and Food Legumes in the Atbara Basin of Eritrea’ is an example of organization and implementation of farmers’ participatory research, conducted utilizing the available indigenous knowledge while empowering farming communities. Farmers have been partners in technology development with extension and research, with full decision-making power in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
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Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Africa
Most African countries underwent water legislation reform since the 1990s, through
which existing plural legal systems were changed into nation-wide permit systems, in
which the state acts as custodian of the nation’s water resources. Although globally
heralded as the best way to manage water resources within the broader context of
Integrated Water Resource Management, this project examines the problematic
implications of the new laws for the majority of the rural and peri-urban poor. Since time
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Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Southern Asia
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Supported by the CPWF, this two-year project titled “Valuing the role of living aquatic
resources to rural livelihoods in multiple-use, seasonally-inundated wetlands in the
Yellow River Basin of China, for improved governance” focused on linking the use of
wetlands resources by local communities and value of wetlands ecosystem services with
management implications for the riverine and coastal wetlands in Henan and Shandong
provinces. A study on this Chinese situation of pursuing a rapid development agenda
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