Participatory water management at the main canal: A case from South Ferghana canal in Uzbekistan

Abdullaev, Iskandar; Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Manthritilake, Hearth; Jumaboev, Kakhramon

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2008.08.013

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“…In the Fergana Valley, WUAs were fi rst established in the mid-1990s in Kyrgyzstan (Sehring 2009 ) but only in the early 2000s in Tajikistan ( ibid ) and in Uzbekistan (Hamidov 2007 ;Abdullaev et al 2009 ). In all instances, the driving forces behind these reforms included the deterioration of on-farm water infrastructure, unequal distribution of water, frequent confl icts amongst water users, ineffi cient irrigation methods and signifi cant reduction of the state budget for local irrigation administration.…”

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Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of Water Users Associations

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Hamidov

2016

Society - Water - Technology

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This chapter investigates the role of water users associations (WUAs) in managing the Fergana Valley's irrigation system at a local level. WUAs were established in the Uzbek section of the Fergana Valley only from the early 2000s onwards and are generally not regarded as having been effective to date, although individual instances of modestly successful WUAs indicate their future potential as viable entities for collective modes of water management. This chapter begins by explaining the origins, purpose and structure of WUAs in the Fergana Valley as set out in policy guidelines and then contrasts this with a study of how they are working in practice. In the concluding section, the effectiveness of WUAs in the Uzbek section of the Fergana Valley is assessed in terms of criteria derived from the literature. This chapter reveals that Uzbekistan's WUAs lack the funding, water user representation and resources to tackle the major structural problems confronting Fergana Valley's post-socialist irrigation system. Their heavy dependence on powerful institutional regimes for irrigation and for agriculture also severely restricts their action. There exist important exceptions, where WUAs are exploring innovative ways of coping with the enormity of their tasks, in isolation and in collaboration, but these represent only a small minority of WUAs in the region and are, to a large extent, dependent on temporary donor funding.

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“…It was created with funding from the IWRM Fergana Valley project with the task of advising new WUAs and resolving confl icts within and between them over water allocation (Abdullaev et al 2009 ). All 43 WUAs in the top two reaches of the South Fergana Canal are members of the union.…”

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Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of Water Users Associations

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Hamidov

2016

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“…This focus on past water supply security approaches attempts to challenge the current focus of the international research community on basins and large infrastructure [12,13]. This paper also points out weaknesses in the current promotion of IMT especially at the main canal level-which shifts water supply security from the government to the water users for agricultural water uses [32,33].…”

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Water Security in the Syr Darya Basin

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Abstract:The importance of water security has gained prominence on the international water agenda, but the focus seems to be directed towards water demand. An essential element of water security is the functioning of public organizations responsible for water supply through direct and indirect security approaches. Despite this, there has been a tendency to overlook the water security strategies of these organizations as well as constraints on their operation. This paper discusses the critical role of water supply in achieving sustainable water security and presents two case studies from Central Asia on the management of water supply for irrigated agriculture. The analysis concludes that existing water supply bureaucracies need to be revitalized to effectively address key challenges in water security.

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“…For others still, the core issue is about strengthening the hand of water users -i.e. farmers -in managing irrigation systems on the ground as a means of improving water-use practices and challenging the authoritarian and bureaucratic procedures of current decision-making (Abdullaev et al 2009 ;Gunchinmaa and Yakubov 2010 ;Abdullaev et al 2010 ;Dukhovny et al 2013 ). A fourth group of authors targets the dire ecological impacts of the existing irrigation system and its management, notably the Aral Sea catastrophe, deploring the absence of environmental issues in debates on the future of the irrigation system in the region (Spoor 1998 ;White 2013 ).…”

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“…This categorisation is by no means mutually exclusive or exhaustive. Further problems confronting the Fergana Valley irrigation system include rapid population growth, negative impacts of climate change, land degradation, infrastructure disrepair, increased crop competition, dependence on donor support, the emigration of specialists and an authoritarian political regime (Dukhovny et al 2009 ;Abdullaev et al 2009 ;Gunchinmaa and Yakubov 2010 ;Abdullaev and Atabaeva 2012 ).…”

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Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies

Moss

Dobner

2016

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This introductory section on water management in the Fergana Valley makes the case for viewing this major water engineering project (MWEP) in terms of two core positions: the interdependency of complex factors at play and the coexistence of forces for change and obduracy. We argue, fi rstly, that water management in the Fergana Valley is inextricably tied up with agriculture policy and practice, outlining how the region's irrigation system is predicated upon post-Soviet agriculture. We illustrate, secondly, how this relationship is shaped not only by powerful path dependencies -in the shape of physical structures, sunk costs and institutional arrangements -but also by changes, both radical and incremental, in response to system failure, shifting political preferences or the emergence of viable alternatives. We conclude by setting the stage for the subsequent detailed analyses of selected arenas critical to the development of Fergana Valley's irrigation system.

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Participatory water management at the main canal: A case from South Ferghana canal in Uzbekistan

Cited by 35 publications

References 3 publications

Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of Water Users Associations

Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of Water Users Associations

Water Security in the Syr Darya Basin

Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies

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