Water Balance: Achieving Sustainable Development Through a Water Assessment and Management Plan

Asian Development Bank (adb)

No RPT146624-3, ADB Reports from Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Abstract: If water is to be managed in a sustainable way, the planners and managers must know how much there is and how much of it is needed, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. The report provides the guidance, methods, data, and analyses needed to assess water availability and needs in micro watersheds. It shows how to prepare short-, medium-, and long-term water investment and management plans on the basis of volume of surface and groundwater within a watershed and the needs of agriculture, people, and livestock. It offers a practical approach based on real-life assessments that have helped planners decide on investments to develop and manage water.

Keywords: Agriculture and natural resources; Water; water balance; sustainable development; water assessment; integrated water resources management; Pakistan; water availability; rainfall; snowmelt runoff; groundwater; water consumption; agriculture; livestock; watershed management; irrigation; Bajaur; Khyber; Mohmand; geographic information system; Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA); FATA Development Authority; curve number method; electric resistivity survey; water balance model; water infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2014-09
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