This is the 3rd lesson taught to students of B.A. (General) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, under the course; Water Resources Planning and Development
This presentation explains the ancient master plan of water resources management, tank cascades - spatial distribution, definitions, and importance, ecosystem services, and functions and planning procedures.
Environmental Problems in Water Resources Development. This is the 2nd lesson taught to students of B.A. (General) degree programme under Water Resources Planning and Development Course at Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale.
This is the third lecture of the course 'Irrigation based Agro-ecosystems' conducted at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Overview of small tank cascades: Evolution, present status and future scenariosDr. P.B.Dharmasena
Presentation made at Policy Dialogue on Restoration and Management of
Small Tank Cascade Systems on 14 February, 2017 at
Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS), Colombo
Watershed management aims to conserve soil and water resources through various treatment measures. Deterioration of watersheds occurs due to faulty agriculture, forestry, mining and other human activities, resulting in less production, increased erosion, and lowered water tables. Watershed development components include soil management, water management, afforestation, and other interdependent activities. Measures for watershed treatment include contour trenches, bench terracing, check dams, plantation, and other methods suitable for agricultural land and hill slopes. The overall goal is to develop watersheds in a sustainable manner.
Lessons adoptable from ancient water management of Sri LankaDr. P.B.Dharmasena
The presentation discussed the objectives of ancient water management in Sri Lanka as:
1. Irrigation for food production
2. Human needs (settlement, drinking water, bathing, domestic needs etc.)
3. Rainwater harvesting systems
4. Environmental existence (flora, fauna etc.)
5. Building cities (Anuradhapura, Sigiriya etc.)
6. Urban planning
7. Basis for administrative boundaries
8. Mitigation of natural disasters (drought, flood, cyclone, epidemics etc.)
This is lesson No. 9 of the course - Water Resources Planning and Development taught to BA (General) degree students at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale
This is the 3rd lesson taught to students of B.A. (General) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, under the course; Water Resources Planning and Development
This presentation explains the ancient master plan of water resources management, tank cascades - spatial distribution, definitions, and importance, ecosystem services, and functions and planning procedures.
Environmental Problems in Water Resources Development. This is the 2nd lesson taught to students of B.A. (General) degree programme under Water Resources Planning and Development Course at Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale.
This is the third lecture of the course 'Irrigation based Agro-ecosystems' conducted at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Overview of small tank cascades: Evolution, present status and future scenariosDr. P.B.Dharmasena
Presentation made at Policy Dialogue on Restoration and Management of
Small Tank Cascade Systems on 14 February, 2017 at
Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS), Colombo
Watershed management aims to conserve soil and water resources through various treatment measures. Deterioration of watersheds occurs due to faulty agriculture, forestry, mining and other human activities, resulting in less production, increased erosion, and lowered water tables. Watershed development components include soil management, water management, afforestation, and other interdependent activities. Measures for watershed treatment include contour trenches, bench terracing, check dams, plantation, and other methods suitable for agricultural land and hill slopes. The overall goal is to develop watersheds in a sustainable manner.
Lessons adoptable from ancient water management of Sri LankaDr. P.B.Dharmasena
The presentation discussed the objectives of ancient water management in Sri Lanka as:
1. Irrigation for food production
2. Human needs (settlement, drinking water, bathing, domestic needs etc.)
3. Rainwater harvesting systems
4. Environmental existence (flora, fauna etc.)
5. Building cities (Anuradhapura, Sigiriya etc.)
6. Urban planning
7. Basis for administrative boundaries
8. Mitigation of natural disasters (drought, flood, cyclone, epidemics etc.)
This is lesson No. 9 of the course - Water Resources Planning and Development taught to BA (General) degree students at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale
watershed management by remote sensing
PPT contains basic remote sensing, need, and objective,concept of watershed management, benefits,application and conclusion.
This document provides an overview of watershed management and development. It defines a watershed and explains their importance for sustaining life. Watershed management aims to manipulate natural, agricultural, and human resources within a watershed to provide desired resources suitably. The objectives are to protect and improve land and water resources. Key perspectives include hydrological, environmental, socio-economic, financial, and administrative aspects. Approaches involve people's participation and a hierarchical organizational structure. Geological aspects that influence watersheds like soil, water, natural hazards are also described.
This document discusses the concepts, objectives, planning, and measures of watershed management. It defines a watershed as a drainage area that contributes surface water runoff to a common point. The key objectives of watershed management are to conserve and utilize water resources within the watershed for the benefit of local communities through practices like water harvesting, soil conservation, and flood control. Effective watershed management requires assessing hydrological and socioeconomic factors and developing a comprehensive plan that identifies problems, proposed solutions, costs/benefits, and responsibilities of various stakeholders. The plan should aim to balance environmental protection, water management, and land use. Common watershed management measures include both non-structural practices like altered cropping patterns and structural practices like
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT - INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION, CONCEPTS OF WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT, OBJECTIVES, INTEGRATED AND MULTI DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES, CHARACTERISTICS OF WATERSHED
Watershed management involves studying the characteristics of a watershed area to sustainably manage its resources and implement plans to maintain watershed functions. It aims to manage water supply, quality, drainage, runoff, rights, and overall planning while involving various stakeholders. Watershed management techniques include vegetative measures like crop rotation and engineering measures like constructing check dams to increase infiltration, water holding capacity, and prevent erosion. Rainwater harvesting techniques also help provide water, recharge groundwater, and reduce floods and pollution by capturing runoff and floodwaters.
Role of watershed management in reducing soil erosion zewde azewde alemayehu
Soil is one of the most important and essential natural resources. Soils offer plants physical support, air, water, temperature moderation, nutrients, and protection from toxins. Soils provide readily available nutrients to plants and animals by converting dead organic matter into various nutrient forms.
This document discusses the institutional changes to watershed development programmes in India over time. It outlines the watershed concept and different classifications of watershed size. It then describes the various government watershed development programmes established since the 1970s and the shifting institutional frameworks, moving from a more centralized top-down structure to one involving more local participation through programs involving PRIs and community institutions. Theories of institutional change and the mechanism design theory are discussed in relation to designing rules and incentives to address issues like asymmetric information and collective action problems among economic agents in watershed programmes.
1) Groundwater depletion is a serious issue that impacts water availability and quality. Heavy extraction for agriculture, industry, and domestic use has led to falling groundwater levels in many parts of India.
2) Major causes of depletion include increased demand from various sectors and limited surface water resources. Green Revolution practices and lack of groundwater regulation have exacerbated the problem.
3) Impacts include the need to pump water from greater depths, shrinking of surface water bodies, saltwater contamination of aquifers, threats to food supply and biodiversity, and formation of sinkholes.
4) Solutions require restricting access to overexploited aquifers, adopting efficient irrigation techniques, community-based management, artificial re
This document provides an overview of integrated watershed management and rainwater harvesting. It discusses India's water resources and challenges meeting future demand. Watershed development, modeling, and integrated management approaches are examined. Successful case studies from Jhabua, India are presented, showing how resources mapping, appropriate technologies, and management systems improved water security, agriculture productivity, and living conditions through a community-based approach. The integrated watershed management achieved water conservation and recharge objectives while promoting sustainable development.
REMOTE SENSING & GIS APPLICATIONS IN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT Sumant Diwakar
This document discusses remote sensing and GIS applications for watershed management. It describes how remote sensing can be used to characterize watersheds by mapping attributes like size, shape, drainage patterns, geology, soil, land use, and groundwater potential. Remote sensing data can be integrated with socioeconomic data and used to delineate watershed boundaries, prioritize watersheds for development, and generate action plans. The document also outlines steps for watershed demarcation, characterization using tools like GEOMORIS, and prioritization using methods such as the sediment yield index.
Scope and aspect of environmental resource managementAl Jubaer
Environmental resource management involves managing the interaction between human societies and the environment. It aims to protect ecosystem services for future generations while balancing human needs. Environmental resources include both natural resources like water, soil, and air as well as socioeconomic and cultural resources. Effective environmental resource management requires consideration of ethical, economic, social, and technological factors. It also requires coordination across many disciplines like geography, biology, ecology, and social sciences.
CHARACTERISTICS OF WATERSHED: size, shape; physiography, slope, climate, drainage, land use, vegetation, geology and soils, hydrology and hydrogeology, socio-economic characteristics, basic data on watersheds.
The water budget, or water balance, of a drainage basin shows the relationship between precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, and changes in water storage. It is often expressed as an equation where precipitation equals surface runoff plus evapotranspiration plus or minus changes in storage. The water budget is useful for hydrologists to understand water surplus and deficit, and to plan for potential water shortages or recharge after deficit. A water budget graph illustrates surplus when precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration and deficit when the reverse is true.
Presentation on remote sensing & gis and watershed copydivya sahgal
The document discusses watershed management and provides definitions, concepts, and techniques related to watersheds. It defines a watershed as a natural hydrological unit drained by a stream system. Watershed management is described as guiding and organizing land and resource usage in a watershed to sustain the environment, particularly soil and water resources. Remote sensing and GIS techniques can be used to collect and analyze spatial data on watershed characteristics to inform watershed planning and management. The document outlines strategies, concerns, and approaches to watershed management aimed at prevention and restoration.
This project presentation summarizes the proposed total watershed management of Madgyal Village in collaboration with IIT Bombay. It provides background on the location, population, and water scarcity issues of Madgyal Village. The objectives are to analyze water resources, understand socio-economic conditions, assess water demand and supply, and suggest watershed management techniques. Components of the design include GIS analysis to delineate the watershed boundary and drainage patterns. The methodology discusses data collection, feasibility analysis of alternatives like contour bunding and check dams, and recommendations for future implementation and monitoring.
The lecture contains aspects such as Ancient Water Resources Planning, Water shortage, or water wastage in Sri Lanka?, Network of tanks and streams in the form of cascades, Tank-village Ecosystem, Patial desilting concept
This document discusses using GIS to evaluate and map soil erosion. It describes several GIS-based models used to estimate soil loss, including the Distributed soil erosion model, Modified USLE, Gully Surface Growth, and Gully Head Advance models. It also discusses how the RUSLE model has been integrated with GIS for soil loss estimation by using input raster files for rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, topographic factors, crop management factors, and practice factors. Case studies are presented on evaluating soil erosion in Taita Hills, Kenya and mapping erosion risk in dam watersheds in Turkey, with findings that erosion risk decreased over time in some areas due to increased vegetation cover or conservation measures.
Management of Soils in the dry zone of Sri Lanka (Sinhala).pdfDr. P.B.Dharmasena
This lecture was delivered to Agricultural Instructors working for Climate Smart Agriculture Project in 11 dry zone districts of Sri Lanka. It includes most abundant soils in Sri Lanka, Land degradation, Sustainable Land Management, new concepts immerged in agriculture to address climate change impacts.
This is the 8th lesson of the course - Water Resources Development and Planning taught to students of BA (General) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale
watershed management by remote sensing
PPT contains basic remote sensing, need, and objective,concept of watershed management, benefits,application and conclusion.
This document provides an overview of watershed management and development. It defines a watershed and explains their importance for sustaining life. Watershed management aims to manipulate natural, agricultural, and human resources within a watershed to provide desired resources suitably. The objectives are to protect and improve land and water resources. Key perspectives include hydrological, environmental, socio-economic, financial, and administrative aspects. Approaches involve people's participation and a hierarchical organizational structure. Geological aspects that influence watersheds like soil, water, natural hazards are also described.
This document discusses the concepts, objectives, planning, and measures of watershed management. It defines a watershed as a drainage area that contributes surface water runoff to a common point. The key objectives of watershed management are to conserve and utilize water resources within the watershed for the benefit of local communities through practices like water harvesting, soil conservation, and flood control. Effective watershed management requires assessing hydrological and socioeconomic factors and developing a comprehensive plan that identifies problems, proposed solutions, costs/benefits, and responsibilities of various stakeholders. The plan should aim to balance environmental protection, water management, and land use. Common watershed management measures include both non-structural practices like altered cropping patterns and structural practices like
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT - INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION, CONCEPTS OF WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT, OBJECTIVES, INTEGRATED AND MULTI DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES, CHARACTERISTICS OF WATERSHED
Watershed management involves studying the characteristics of a watershed area to sustainably manage its resources and implement plans to maintain watershed functions. It aims to manage water supply, quality, drainage, runoff, rights, and overall planning while involving various stakeholders. Watershed management techniques include vegetative measures like crop rotation and engineering measures like constructing check dams to increase infiltration, water holding capacity, and prevent erosion. Rainwater harvesting techniques also help provide water, recharge groundwater, and reduce floods and pollution by capturing runoff and floodwaters.
Role of watershed management in reducing soil erosion zewde azewde alemayehu
Soil is one of the most important and essential natural resources. Soils offer plants physical support, air, water, temperature moderation, nutrients, and protection from toxins. Soils provide readily available nutrients to plants and animals by converting dead organic matter into various nutrient forms.
This document discusses the institutional changes to watershed development programmes in India over time. It outlines the watershed concept and different classifications of watershed size. It then describes the various government watershed development programmes established since the 1970s and the shifting institutional frameworks, moving from a more centralized top-down structure to one involving more local participation through programs involving PRIs and community institutions. Theories of institutional change and the mechanism design theory are discussed in relation to designing rules and incentives to address issues like asymmetric information and collective action problems among economic agents in watershed programmes.
1) Groundwater depletion is a serious issue that impacts water availability and quality. Heavy extraction for agriculture, industry, and domestic use has led to falling groundwater levels in many parts of India.
2) Major causes of depletion include increased demand from various sectors and limited surface water resources. Green Revolution practices and lack of groundwater regulation have exacerbated the problem.
3) Impacts include the need to pump water from greater depths, shrinking of surface water bodies, saltwater contamination of aquifers, threats to food supply and biodiversity, and formation of sinkholes.
4) Solutions require restricting access to overexploited aquifers, adopting efficient irrigation techniques, community-based management, artificial re
This document provides an overview of integrated watershed management and rainwater harvesting. It discusses India's water resources and challenges meeting future demand. Watershed development, modeling, and integrated management approaches are examined. Successful case studies from Jhabua, India are presented, showing how resources mapping, appropriate technologies, and management systems improved water security, agriculture productivity, and living conditions through a community-based approach. The integrated watershed management achieved water conservation and recharge objectives while promoting sustainable development.
REMOTE SENSING & GIS APPLICATIONS IN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT Sumant Diwakar
This document discusses remote sensing and GIS applications for watershed management. It describes how remote sensing can be used to characterize watersheds by mapping attributes like size, shape, drainage patterns, geology, soil, land use, and groundwater potential. Remote sensing data can be integrated with socioeconomic data and used to delineate watershed boundaries, prioritize watersheds for development, and generate action plans. The document also outlines steps for watershed demarcation, characterization using tools like GEOMORIS, and prioritization using methods such as the sediment yield index.
Scope and aspect of environmental resource managementAl Jubaer
Environmental resource management involves managing the interaction between human societies and the environment. It aims to protect ecosystem services for future generations while balancing human needs. Environmental resources include both natural resources like water, soil, and air as well as socioeconomic and cultural resources. Effective environmental resource management requires consideration of ethical, economic, social, and technological factors. It also requires coordination across many disciplines like geography, biology, ecology, and social sciences.
CHARACTERISTICS OF WATERSHED: size, shape; physiography, slope, climate, drainage, land use, vegetation, geology and soils, hydrology and hydrogeology, socio-economic characteristics, basic data on watersheds.
The water budget, or water balance, of a drainage basin shows the relationship between precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, and changes in water storage. It is often expressed as an equation where precipitation equals surface runoff plus evapotranspiration plus or minus changes in storage. The water budget is useful for hydrologists to understand water surplus and deficit, and to plan for potential water shortages or recharge after deficit. A water budget graph illustrates surplus when precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration and deficit when the reverse is true.
Presentation on remote sensing & gis and watershed copydivya sahgal
The document discusses watershed management and provides definitions, concepts, and techniques related to watersheds. It defines a watershed as a natural hydrological unit drained by a stream system. Watershed management is described as guiding and organizing land and resource usage in a watershed to sustain the environment, particularly soil and water resources. Remote sensing and GIS techniques can be used to collect and analyze spatial data on watershed characteristics to inform watershed planning and management. The document outlines strategies, concerns, and approaches to watershed management aimed at prevention and restoration.
This project presentation summarizes the proposed total watershed management of Madgyal Village in collaboration with IIT Bombay. It provides background on the location, population, and water scarcity issues of Madgyal Village. The objectives are to analyze water resources, understand socio-economic conditions, assess water demand and supply, and suggest watershed management techniques. Components of the design include GIS analysis to delineate the watershed boundary and drainage patterns. The methodology discusses data collection, feasibility analysis of alternatives like contour bunding and check dams, and recommendations for future implementation and monitoring.
The lecture contains aspects such as Ancient Water Resources Planning, Water shortage, or water wastage in Sri Lanka?, Network of tanks and streams in the form of cascades, Tank-village Ecosystem, Patial desilting concept
This document discusses using GIS to evaluate and map soil erosion. It describes several GIS-based models used to estimate soil loss, including the Distributed soil erosion model, Modified USLE, Gully Surface Growth, and Gully Head Advance models. It also discusses how the RUSLE model has been integrated with GIS for soil loss estimation by using input raster files for rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, topographic factors, crop management factors, and practice factors. Case studies are presented on evaluating soil erosion in Taita Hills, Kenya and mapping erosion risk in dam watersheds in Turkey, with findings that erosion risk decreased over time in some areas due to increased vegetation cover or conservation measures.
Management of Soils in the dry zone of Sri Lanka (Sinhala).pdfDr. P.B.Dharmasena
This lecture was delivered to Agricultural Instructors working for Climate Smart Agriculture Project in 11 dry zone districts of Sri Lanka. It includes most abundant soils in Sri Lanka, Land degradation, Sustainable Land Management, new concepts immerged in agriculture to address climate change impacts.
This is the 8th lesson of the course - Water Resources Development and Planning taught to students of BA (General) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale
This is the 5th lesson of the course - Water Resources Planning and Development taught to students of BA (General), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
This is the 7th lesson of the course - Water Resources Planning and Development, taught to the students of BA (General) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
The lecture delivered for Agricultural Instructors working for Climate Smart Agriculture Project in 11 districts of Sri Lanka. It explains the difference between climate and weather, factors affecting climate variation in Sri Lanka, Rainfall, altitude, degree of wetness etc.
This lecture was delivered to Agricultural Instructors working for Climate Smart Agriculture Project in 11 districts in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. It includes Climate Smart Agriculture, Special characters in CSA, technological packages for crops such as paddy, maize etc. and livestock such as cattle, poultry etc.
This lecture was delivered for the Agricultural Instructors working for Climate Smart Agriculture project in 11 districts in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. It includes climate change and climate variability, Relevance of global impacts of climate change. Green House Gas (GHG) emission, Reduction of GHG in the agriculture sector, targets for GHG reduction up to 2050, new agriculture concepts to reduce GHG and increase carbon sequestration
Presentation made at a Webinar Program on 11th June 2024 for World Environment Day organized jointly by Organization of Environment & Children Rights Preservation (OECRP), and Ace Property & Business Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd (APB)
This is a presentation made on Climate Smart Agriculture for training of trainers under the project on Building Resilience and Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness in Sri Lanka
4 Climate Resilience WV English for training of trainersDr. P.B.Dharmasena
This is a presentation made for trainers on Climate Resilience
under the project on Building Resilience and Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness in Sri Lanka
This is a TOT presentation made on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for the project - Building Resilience and Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness in Sri Lanka
2 Climate change on agriculture for training of trainersDr. P.B.Dharmasena
This is a TOT presentation on Agriculture and Climate Change
made for the project - Building Resilience and Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness in Sri Lanka
1 Climate and Soil for training of trainers.WV English.pdfDr. P.B.Dharmasena
This is a presentation made for trainers on soil and climate under the project on Building Resilience and Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness in Sri Lanka
Developing 2050 Carbon Net Zero Road Map & Strategic Plan for Sri Lanka - ...Dr. P.B.Dharmasena
This validation workshop was held after preparing the Road Map and Strategic Plan for Sri Lanka and the authors are responsible for the agriculture sector.
Sustainable Water Management in Cascade System: A model in Environmentally Se...Dr. P.B.Dharmasena
This document summarizes a presentation given at the International Water Conference in Sri Lanka on sustainable water management in tank cascade systems. Some key points:
- Tank cascade systems are a traditional Sri Lankan method of water resources management that store, convey, and utilize water across interconnected tanks and streams. This helps mitigate droughts and floods.
- The Village Tank Cascade System was declared a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System by the UN's FAO for its sustainable practices.
- Challenges include high amounts of water lost to the sea each year, lack of coordination between water agencies, and ignoring traditional management systems.
- Tank cascades provide multiple benefits like food/water security, biodiversity,
Restoration of Tank Cascade Systems for Productivity and SustainabilityDr. P.B.Dharmasena
Presentation made for Technical staff of Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project (CRIWMP) at Kurunegala on 9th May 2018
Why cascade systems again?
Drought and flood events can be expected more due to climate change
High prevalence of poverty in tank cascade areas
Mal-nutrition can be greatly reduced by tank fishery and animal husbandry
Better land use under cascade principles – addresses ecological issues such as clearance of village forests, unsustainable land use etc.
Improve living conditions
Health issues ? – drinking water, contamination of agro-chemicals and heavy metals leads to kidney failures, malaria etc.
Most importantly It is an answer to drought hazards
A rainwater harvesting technology;
A soil moisture and groundwater maintaining technology;
A soil erosion and siltation control technology;
A technology that ensured the maintenance of ecological balance;
A technology that promotes social cohesion and needs for community leadership;
A system that accommodates spiritual development which promotes egalitarian (equally treated) attitudes especially during droughts;
A system that nurtured the development of drought insurance through animal husbandry
Cascade Tank Village System and identification of novel post graduate researc...Dr. P.B.Dharmasena
Seminar on Research collaboration opportunities with School of Environment and Rural Science, University of New England, Australia - 14th September 2018, NRMC, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Main GHGs from agricultural lands are CH4 and N2O
GHG emission can be reduced by 60 % in 2050 through:
Removal of rice straws and through good management practices in paddy fields
Use alternatives to chemical fertilizer
CH4 reduction from livestock by improving feed quality and animal comfort
Reduce N2O emission in soils
Enhance C sequestration in paddy and rainfed uplands through ‘Evergreen Agro-ecosystem’ concept
Carbon stock in agricultural lands can be enhanced by improving land management practices
C sequestration in tea lands can be increased through: Agro-ecosystem approach; Crop diversification; Intercropping; Introduction of shade trees with optimum density; and Rehabilitation of old tea lands
C stock can be increased by 267 % by the year 2050 through Home Garden Intensification
If the proposed mitigation actions are implemented, the country will be able to achieve Net Zero by 2038.
Progress of Improving System Efficiencies and Water Productivity (ISEWP): A C...Dr. P.B.Dharmasena
Objective: To analyze and demonstrate sustainable increases in irrigation system efficiencies and water productivity (in both yields and returns) that can be readily adopted in irrigation schemes and farms within the Mahaweli System.
Approach: The approach is in two inter-related parts;
Part 1 - case study irrigation systems, and
Part 2 - pilot demonstrations
Inception workshop held on 10th December 2018
Report submitted accommodating comments several times.
The Inception Report was finally accepted by the client on 19th July 2019 one month after the departure of the former Team Leader.
The progress has been seriously affected due to above reason
Up to now 6 monthly progress reports from April to September 2019 have been submitted