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

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dc.creatorImbulana, Upali
dc.creatorAheeyar, Mohamed M. M.
dc.creatorAmarasinghe, Upali A.
dc.creatorAmarnath, Giriraj
dc.date2023-12-01
dc.date2024-01-08T06:40:01Z
dc.date2024-01-08T06:40:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:31:56Z
dc.descriptionVillage 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.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/137281
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/158621
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Water Management Institute
dc.publisherCGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceImbulana, Upali; Aheeyar, Mohamed; Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Amarnath, Giriraj. 2023. Governance issues for sustainable management of village irrigation in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience. 21p.
dc.subjectirrigation systems
dc.subjectvillages
dc.subjectirrigation management
dc.subjectwater governance
dc.subjectarid zones
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectwater resources
dc.subjectwater management
dc.subjectwater security
dc.subjecttanks
dc.subjectdrainage canals
dc.subjectriver basins
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectfloods
dc.subjectdrought
dc.subjectclimate resilience
dc.subjectcommunities
dc.titleGovernance issues for sustainable management of village irrigation in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
dc.typeReport

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