Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications

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dc.creatorBruns, Bryan
dc.creatorKhadka, Manohara
dc.creatorKC, Sumitra
dc.creatorRauniyar, Amrita
dc.date2024-11-21
dc.date2024-11-21T16:54:50Z
dc.date2024-11-21T16:54:50Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:05:40Z
dc.descriptionGroundwater is a crucial source of water for domestic use and increasingly used for irrigation in the southern Terai region of Nepal. However, increasing groundwater extraction and other changes are depleting groundwater levels. Well drillers interviewed in Barahathawa said that water used to be available at 35 feet below the surface but now in some places they have to go to 60 feet or more for reliable water. This is an example of problems and the need for better institutions to govern a shared, invisible, and often poorly understood resource. Groundwater crop-choice games are part of a toolbox of activities that can help people learn and work together to improve groundwater governance. This brief presents lessons and implications from an initial exercise with groundwater games in Barahathawa Municipality in Madhesh Province in Nepal.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162554
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94331
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1473
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1317
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1316
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101289
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13862-280130
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceBruns, Bryan; Khadka, Manohara; KC, Sumitra; and Rauniyar, Amrita. 2024. Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications. CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162554
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.subjectgroundwater
dc.subjectirrigation
dc.titleGroundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications
dc.typeBrief

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