Title | Multiple use schemes : benefit to smallholders |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Pant, D, Gautam, KR, Shakya, SD, Adhikari, DL |
Secondary Title | Working paper / IWMI |
Volume | no. 114 |
Pagination | vii, 40 p. : 3 fig., 1 map, 33 tab. |
Date Published | 2006-01-01 |
Publisher | International Water Management Institute (IWMI) |
Place Published | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
ISSN Number | 9789290906439 |
Keywords | crop production, domestic use, drinking water, gender, multiple use, nepal, water use |
Abstract |
To document potential effects of Multiple Use Schemes and to determine prospects and constraints for their expansion in the hills of Nepal, the Smallholder Irrigation Market Initiative project has developed nine multiple use water schemes, three in each district ; newly constructed or up-graded and expanded, to supply water for both household use and irrigation. Various forms of intervention strategies were introduced to use the existing infrastructures for both irrigation and drinking water. Whether MUS could yield similar benefits across the wide range of socio-economic and agro-climatic conditions in the hills of Nepal was investigated. The key physical, social, economic, organizational and policy attributes that influence the outcomes, and the constraining and facilitating factors for the expansion of MUS schemes were determined. |
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