This presentation was given to the AEP San Diego Chapter in February 2012. The presentation discusses the use of mitigation banks to promote preserve management and management challenges and opportunities
This document discusses water trading and groundwater management in California. It defines water trading as temporary, long-term, or permanent trades of water rights or contracts. Water trading matters for water-limited regions like California as it can reduce drought costs, accommodate demand shifts, and help adapt to climate change. However, water trading requires infrastructure to connect sources and destinations, and protections like preventing unreasonable harm to other users and local economic impacts. California's extensive infrastructure facilitates long-distance water trades. The document also summarizes California's 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and its requirements for local agencies to attain sustainability goals like balanced water levels and reduced overdrafting through strategies like cooperative recharging programs and water trading within basins.
This document discusses building resilience to hazards through livelihood practices. It defines resilience as the ability to resist, absorb and recover from hazards. It outlines resilient agricultural, livestock, fisheries, and WaSH practices like crop diversification, raising homesteads, and strengthening infrastructure. The document presents Bangladesh's process for analyzing hazards and traditional livelihoods, planning resilient livelihoods, and mainstreaming these plans into government programs. It acknowledges challenges in implementation but emphasizes continuing to scale up resilient practices and build capacity to deal with increasing hazards.
This is a presentation given at a stakeholder meeting to discuss community views of watershed management in the Wappinger Creek Watershed in the Hudson Valley, New York, May 2010.
Collective action issues at the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia, 201...ILRI
Presented by Derbew Kefyalew (ILRI) at the Workshop on the Lessons and Success Stories from a Pilot Project on Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Kabe watershed, south Wollo, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 11-12 February 2013
This document discusses building capacity to educate private water supply users in Virginia through two programs: the Virginia Well Owner Network (VWON) and the Virginia Household Water Quality Program (VAHWQP). VWON provides training to extension agents and volunteers on topics like groundwater hydrology, well construction and maintenance, and water testing. VAHWQP coordinates county-based drinking water clinics where homeowners can get water samples tested and learn about addressing any issues. The programs aim to increase awareness of water issues and responsibility for well owners who rely on private water supplies. Data shows the clinics are effective, with 70% of participants taking action after learning their water test results.
Michael Furbish is the CEO of Smart Slope, LLC, which has developed a vegetated stabilization system called Smart Slope to address problems of erosion, sedimentation, and degraded water quality from the loss of 260 acres per year of Maryland tidal shoreline. Smart Slope combines attributes of soft slope systems and hard structures to fully eliminate erosion and mitigate sediment and nutrient loads to streams and creeks in Anne Arundel County, with potential benefits for property values, structures, and stormwater management if integrated with civil engineering.
This presentation summarizes a project to renovate the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course in Florida. Key elements included redesigning the course layout, overhauling drainage and utilities, and implementing an alternative water supply for irrigation. Stormwater solutions included wet and dry detention as well as injection wells. An integrated approach using stormwater, brackish water, and seashore paspalum turf was implemented as the alternative water supply, saving millions of gallons of potable water annually. The project received various environmental and economic benefits and awards.
This document discusses water trading and groundwater management in California. It defines water trading as temporary, long-term, or permanent trades of water rights or contracts. Water trading matters for water-limited regions like California as it can reduce drought costs, accommodate demand shifts, and help adapt to climate change. However, water trading requires infrastructure to connect sources and destinations, and protections like preventing unreasonable harm to other users and local economic impacts. California's extensive infrastructure facilitates long-distance water trades. The document also summarizes California's 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and its requirements for local agencies to attain sustainability goals like balanced water levels and reduced overdrafting through strategies like cooperative recharging programs and water trading within basins.
This document discusses building resilience to hazards through livelihood practices. It defines resilience as the ability to resist, absorb and recover from hazards. It outlines resilient agricultural, livestock, fisheries, and WaSH practices like crop diversification, raising homesteads, and strengthening infrastructure. The document presents Bangladesh's process for analyzing hazards and traditional livelihoods, planning resilient livelihoods, and mainstreaming these plans into government programs. It acknowledges challenges in implementation but emphasizes continuing to scale up resilient practices and build capacity to deal with increasing hazards.
This is a presentation given at a stakeholder meeting to discuss community views of watershed management in the Wappinger Creek Watershed in the Hudson Valley, New York, May 2010.
Collective action issues at the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia, 201...ILRI
Presented by Derbew Kefyalew (ILRI) at the Workshop on the Lessons and Success Stories from a Pilot Project on Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Kabe watershed, south Wollo, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 11-12 February 2013
This document discusses building capacity to educate private water supply users in Virginia through two programs: the Virginia Well Owner Network (VWON) and the Virginia Household Water Quality Program (VAHWQP). VWON provides training to extension agents and volunteers on topics like groundwater hydrology, well construction and maintenance, and water testing. VAHWQP coordinates county-based drinking water clinics where homeowners can get water samples tested and learn about addressing any issues. The programs aim to increase awareness of water issues and responsibility for well owners who rely on private water supplies. Data shows the clinics are effective, with 70% of participants taking action after learning their water test results.
Michael Furbish is the CEO of Smart Slope, LLC, which has developed a vegetated stabilization system called Smart Slope to address problems of erosion, sedimentation, and degraded water quality from the loss of 260 acres per year of Maryland tidal shoreline. Smart Slope combines attributes of soft slope systems and hard structures to fully eliminate erosion and mitigate sediment and nutrient loads to streams and creeks in Anne Arundel County, with potential benefits for property values, structures, and stormwater management if integrated with civil engineering.
This presentation summarizes a project to renovate the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course in Florida. Key elements included redesigning the course layout, overhauling drainage and utilities, and implementing an alternative water supply for irrigation. Stormwater solutions included wet and dry detention as well as injection wells. An integrated approach using stormwater, brackish water, and seashore paspalum turf was implemented as the alternative water supply, saving millions of gallons of potable water annually. The project received various environmental and economic benefits and awards.
The document discusses strategies for increasing revenue stability through water rate design in the City of Conroe. Currently, the city relies too heavily on variable water revenue which declines during droughts and with conservation efforts. The rate design committee aims to develop a structure that supports expenses while encouraging conservation. It is important to increase the ratio of fixed to variable revenue. Recommendations include raising base rates for future increases and meter rates, adding a surcharge for drought stages, and simplifying the tiered rate structure. Charts show current rates and static water levels in the Jasper Aquifer.
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) plays an important ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay by filtering water and providing habitat and food. However, SAV has been declining due to poor water quality and lack of light. Encapsulated eelgrass seeds could provide a low-cost solution for widespread SAV restoration by being easily dispersed and having a higher germination rate than traditional techniques. With $250,000 in funding, further trials and commercialization of this seed-based approach could help meet restoration goals for the Chesapeake Bay.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
Innovative financial mechanisms and water related collective action for wate...GWP Centroamérica
This document discusses Coca-Cola's global water stewardship strategic framework. It notes that water is the biggest part of Coca-Cola's supply chain and is under growing stress. The framework focuses on reducing water use through efficiency and reuse, recycling wastewater, and replenishing water to communities and nature. Coca-Cola has invested over $1 billion in wastewater treatment and replenishes 68% of its production volume. The company aims to balance its consumptive water use and replenish 100% of production volume by 2020 through watershed protection projects. It also outlines potential replenishment activities and their impacts on water quantity and quality.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
The Harris-Galveston and Fort Bend Subsidence Districts have implemented a Water Conservation Program to improve household water conservation in the Houston Region. The program began in the 1990s with a Waterwise school education program that has educated nearly 70,000 students. In 2017, the program focuses on outdoor irrigation, which can account for 40% of homes' water use. It established a WaterMyYard network with Texas A&M University that provides tools and education to registered users to ensure healthy landscapes while conserving water. The districts are also working to disseminate best practices for landscape irrigation through outreach and media across their areas.
Landscaping options like xeriscaping and zeroscaping conserve water and require low maintenance. Xeriscaping uses drought-tolerant plants and rocks in an attractive design, while zeroscaping focuses on rocks with few plants. Both save water, money, and resources. Developing a plan, conditioning soil, limiting lawn size, efficient irrigation, and using mulch are principles for waterwise landscaping. Local resources provide more information on creating conservation-minded landscapes.
This document provides a brief history of water quality trading and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) role and support through Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG). NRCS's interest in water quality trading (WQT) includes improving agricultural water quality, attracting non-federal investment, and ensuring programs work for agricultural producers. Through CIG, NRCS has funded over 1,100 WQT projects since 2004 to develop programs, tools, outreach, pilots, and credit stacking, planting seeds for many current WQT programs. Challenges include the permit-driven nature of WQT and slower than anticipated growth in transactions. Looking forward, 2015 CIG projects and a new National Network on Water Quality Trading
How to design your interventions to build sustainable and climate-resilient food production systems.
Presented at the Virtual forum. More information is available at https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/events/operationalizing-farmer-led-irrigation-development-at-scale/
This document discusses MillerCoors' water stewardship efforts including:
1) Water is a critical issue globally and for businesses, with agriculture and production most at risk from scarcity.
2) MillerCoors is committed to various initiatives to improve water efficiency, wastewater management, supply chain risk assessment, and community partnerships.
3) Specific projects include reducing the brewery water usage ratio, converting wastewater to energy, assessing watershed risks, measuring impacts of conservation projects, and partnering with farmers on water saving technologies.
This document discusses challenges and priorities for Ireland's water policy, including preparing for the third River Basin Management Plan. Key challenges include addressing infrastructure deficits, compliance with quality standards, and adapting to climate change. The third plan will continue work on significant water management issues like agriculture, climate change, and urban pressures. Other priorities include evolving Irish Water's role, securing investment of over €11 billion for water services, and support for rural water infrastructure through grant schemes. Coordination is needed across areas like land use, food, and biodiversity policies to deliver better environmental outcomes.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This presentation was by Con McLaughlin, Donegal County Council and Andy Griggs, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
The document summarizes John Astilla's presentation at the 2011 HACD Annual Conference about conservation planning, watershed planning, and outreach efforts on Maui. It discusses the Upcountry Watershed Project, Kula Storm Water Reclamation Study, and Lahaina Watershed Project. It also mentions a conservation awareness contest and thanks supporting organizations.
This document summarizes a conference on climate change adaptation, food security, and population dynamics in South Asia. It notes that the region faces significant water challenges including climate change impacts, water-related disasters, transboundary water issues, and food insecurity. Observed changes include increasing temperatures, changes to monsoon patterns, more extreme events like floods and droughts, and glacial melting. Projections include changes in precipitation and runoff that vary by location. Adaptation is needed in water and agriculture sectors, through improved cooperation, capacity building, research, and interventions like rainwater harvesting. Regional cooperation on data sharing, early warning systems, and transboundary waters is important given the regions shared river basins.
The Nicola Water Use Management Plan (Nicola WUMP) was created by a multi-stakeholder committee to guide the sustainable use of water resources in the Nicola watershed. The plan includes 37 recommendations in 8 areas such as planning, conservation, regulation, and water quality. It also identifies guiding principles for water management such as recognizing water as a precious resource and promoting conservation. Community feedback is sought on the draft 76-page plan before submitting it to the government.
The Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grant Program provides funding to producer groups in Wisconsin to implement watershed protection projects. In 2016 and 2017, over $440,000 was awarded to 25 producer-led groups to fund projects like cover crops, buffers, education events, and research on topics such as cover crops and nutrient management. The grants help groups form partnerships with local organizations and evaluate their progress through metrics like the number of outreach activities, acres of conservation practices implemented, and changes in soil test phosphorus levels. Feedback on the program from farmers has been positive about producer-led groups taking the lead on watershed protection.
The pros and cons of community participation inKudzai Bhunu
This document discusses community participation in irrigation development and identifies both pros and cons. It covers several areas including community participation in irrigation projects, irrigation development and its relation to water and sanitation, the role of gender in irrigation, and the impacts of climate change on irrigation. The key benefits of community participation identified are cost sharing, improved project efficiency and effectiveness, technology transfer, and sharing of labor. However, issues like dependency, poor information sharing, and design challenges can arise. Overall, the document recommends enhancing indigenous knowledge, addressing water and sanitation issues, involving women, and adapting irrigation to climate change impacts like changed rainfall patterns.
The document discusses strategies for increasing revenue stability through water rate design in the City of Conroe. Currently, the city relies too heavily on variable water revenue which declines during droughts and with conservation efforts. The rate design committee aims to develop a structure that supports expenses while encouraging conservation. It is important to increase the ratio of fixed to variable revenue. Recommendations include raising base rates for future increases and meter rates, adding a surcharge for drought stages, and simplifying the tiered rate structure. Charts show current rates and static water levels in the Jasper Aquifer.
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) plays an important ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay by filtering water and providing habitat and food. However, SAV has been declining due to poor water quality and lack of light. Encapsulated eelgrass seeds could provide a low-cost solution for widespread SAV restoration by being easily dispersed and having a higher germination rate than traditional techniques. With $250,000 in funding, further trials and commercialization of this seed-based approach could help meet restoration goals for the Chesapeake Bay.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
Innovative financial mechanisms and water related collective action for wate...GWP Centroamérica
This document discusses Coca-Cola's global water stewardship strategic framework. It notes that water is the biggest part of Coca-Cola's supply chain and is under growing stress. The framework focuses on reducing water use through efficiency and reuse, recycling wastewater, and replenishing water to communities and nature. Coca-Cola has invested over $1 billion in wastewater treatment and replenishes 68% of its production volume. The company aims to balance its consumptive water use and replenish 100% of production volume by 2020 through watershed protection projects. It also outlines potential replenishment activities and their impacts on water quantity and quality.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
The Harris-Galveston and Fort Bend Subsidence Districts have implemented a Water Conservation Program to improve household water conservation in the Houston Region. The program began in the 1990s with a Waterwise school education program that has educated nearly 70,000 students. In 2017, the program focuses on outdoor irrigation, which can account for 40% of homes' water use. It established a WaterMyYard network with Texas A&M University that provides tools and education to registered users to ensure healthy landscapes while conserving water. The districts are also working to disseminate best practices for landscape irrigation through outreach and media across their areas.
Landscaping options like xeriscaping and zeroscaping conserve water and require low maintenance. Xeriscaping uses drought-tolerant plants and rocks in an attractive design, while zeroscaping focuses on rocks with few plants. Both save water, money, and resources. Developing a plan, conditioning soil, limiting lawn size, efficient irrigation, and using mulch are principles for waterwise landscaping. Local resources provide more information on creating conservation-minded landscapes.
This document provides a brief history of water quality trading and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) role and support through Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG). NRCS's interest in water quality trading (WQT) includes improving agricultural water quality, attracting non-federal investment, and ensuring programs work for agricultural producers. Through CIG, NRCS has funded over 1,100 WQT projects since 2004 to develop programs, tools, outreach, pilots, and credit stacking, planting seeds for many current WQT programs. Challenges include the permit-driven nature of WQT and slower than anticipated growth in transactions. Looking forward, 2015 CIG projects and a new National Network on Water Quality Trading
How to design your interventions to build sustainable and climate-resilient food production systems.
Presented at the Virtual forum. More information is available at https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/events/operationalizing-farmer-led-irrigation-development-at-scale/
This document discusses MillerCoors' water stewardship efforts including:
1) Water is a critical issue globally and for businesses, with agriculture and production most at risk from scarcity.
2) MillerCoors is committed to various initiatives to improve water efficiency, wastewater management, supply chain risk assessment, and community partnerships.
3) Specific projects include reducing the brewery water usage ratio, converting wastewater to energy, assessing watershed risks, measuring impacts of conservation projects, and partnering with farmers on water saving technologies.
This document discusses challenges and priorities for Ireland's water policy, including preparing for the third River Basin Management Plan. Key challenges include addressing infrastructure deficits, compliance with quality standards, and adapting to climate change. The third plan will continue work on significant water management issues like agriculture, climate change, and urban pressures. Other priorities include evolving Irish Water's role, securing investment of over €11 billion for water services, and support for rural water infrastructure through grant schemes. Coordination is needed across areas like land use, food, and biodiversity policies to deliver better environmental outcomes.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This presentation was by Con McLaughlin, Donegal County Council and Andy Griggs, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
The document summarizes John Astilla's presentation at the 2011 HACD Annual Conference about conservation planning, watershed planning, and outreach efforts on Maui. It discusses the Upcountry Watershed Project, Kula Storm Water Reclamation Study, and Lahaina Watershed Project. It also mentions a conservation awareness contest and thanks supporting organizations.
This document summarizes a conference on climate change adaptation, food security, and population dynamics in South Asia. It notes that the region faces significant water challenges including climate change impacts, water-related disasters, transboundary water issues, and food insecurity. Observed changes include increasing temperatures, changes to monsoon patterns, more extreme events like floods and droughts, and glacial melting. Projections include changes in precipitation and runoff that vary by location. Adaptation is needed in water and agriculture sectors, through improved cooperation, capacity building, research, and interventions like rainwater harvesting. Regional cooperation on data sharing, early warning systems, and transboundary waters is important given the regions shared river basins.
The Nicola Water Use Management Plan (Nicola WUMP) was created by a multi-stakeholder committee to guide the sustainable use of water resources in the Nicola watershed. The plan includes 37 recommendations in 8 areas such as planning, conservation, regulation, and water quality. It also identifies guiding principles for water management such as recognizing water as a precious resource and promoting conservation. Community feedback is sought on the draft 76-page plan before submitting it to the government.
The Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grant Program provides funding to producer groups in Wisconsin to implement watershed protection projects. In 2016 and 2017, over $440,000 was awarded to 25 producer-led groups to fund projects like cover crops, buffers, education events, and research on topics such as cover crops and nutrient management. The grants help groups form partnerships with local organizations and evaluate their progress through metrics like the number of outreach activities, acres of conservation practices implemented, and changes in soil test phosphorus levels. Feedback on the program from farmers has been positive about producer-led groups taking the lead on watershed protection.
The pros and cons of community participation inKudzai Bhunu
This document discusses community participation in irrigation development and identifies both pros and cons. It covers several areas including community participation in irrigation projects, irrigation development and its relation to water and sanitation, the role of gender in irrigation, and the impacts of climate change on irrigation. The key benefits of community participation identified are cost sharing, improved project efficiency and effectiveness, technology transfer, and sharing of labor. However, issues like dependency, poor information sharing, and design challenges can arise. Overall, the document recommends enhancing indigenous knowledge, addressing water and sanitation issues, involving women, and adapting irrigation to climate change impacts like changed rainfall patterns.
El documento describe las nuevas tendencias en publicidad, incluyendo un enfoque en el contenido y distribución que fomenta un mayor compromiso del consumidor, como compartir en redes sociales. También señala el uso creciente de publicidad experiencial, emocional y con historias que generan identificación, así como una mayor personalización y uso de la tecnología para involucrar a los consumidores.
El documento describe los productos de una compañía llamada Omni Life que ofrece suplementos alimenticios y cosméticos naturales. Explica que los suplementos ayudan a mejorar la salud mediante la nutrición celular y la prevención de enfermedades, mientras que los cosméticos usan ingredientes naturales para cuidar la piel y el cabello. El documento también invita a las personas a usar los productos y compartir los resultados para unirse a la oportunidad de negocio de la compañía.
Este resumen describe un trabajo de control de lectura sobre la novela "El Socio" de Genaro Prieto. Se identifica al narrador omnisciente y a los protagonistas Julián Pardo y su invención Walter Davis. También describe la estructura de inicio, trama y desenlace de la novela, en la que la mentira de Davis cobra vida propia y lleva a Julián al suicidio después de que cree haber ahorcado a Davis pero en realidad mata a su hijo. El comentario final es que la mentira nunca lleva a nada bueno.
This document summarizes a presentation about watershed-scale conservation efforts in the Great Lakes region. It discusses several phases of research and modeling that were conducted to determine: 1) the link between fish health and water quality; 2) the link between water quality and agricultural best management practices (BMPs); and 3) the development of decision tools to target BMPs and track progress. It also describes several pilot projects that aim to test innovative strategies for implementing BMPs and achieving watershed goals through partnerships with farmers and agribusinesses. The overall goal is to use science-based tools and new funding models to implement conservation at a large enough scale to improve conditions in watersheds and the Great Lakes.
Financial incentives for conservation practices on farms have totaled $7.2 billion over five years, but have shown questionable results. Voluntary conservation programs have inherent weaknesses, as the most popular practices are not always the most effective, and changes in land use are often not lasting. While gains were reported in some areas like stream buffers and grassed waterways, these were offset by losses, so the net impact was minimal. To drive more durable change, programs need to focus on landscape-scale results, technical support, and local accountability to ensure conservation responsibilities are met.
The document discusses the importance of collaboration between conservation groups and agricultural organizations to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region. It highlights several successful partnerships in Virginia, including the Virginia Waste Solutions Forum and an On-Farm Network project, that have brought partners together, identified economically viable solutions, and changed farmers' behaviors through information sharing and adaptive management. The key to effective partnerships is recognizing each sides' goals and needs, the role of science and economics, and that a one-size-fits-all approach does not work in agriculture.
Conservation District’s Field Perspective – Getting Results C. StrohmaierKim Beidler
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for soil conservation districts in engaging farmers and improving environmental practices. It notes that farmers may be more open to conservation if they see an economic benefit. Districts struggle to obtain funding and face high staff turnover, making it difficult to build relationships. Regulations around installing conservation practices can also be frustrating. However, partnerships, education efforts, and identifying agriculture as part of the solution can help promote better conservation. Maintaining funding and staff is important for long-term success.
This document summarizes lessons learned from the NIFA-CEAP Synthesis and other watershed studies. Key lessons include: (1) Conservation planning must be done at the watershed scale with sufficient water quality and modeling information; (2) Pollutants of concern and their sources must be identified before implementing practices; and (3) Technical assistance to farmers works best when delivered locally by a trusted contact. Effective conservation requires addressing economic, social, and technical factors influencing farmer decision-making. While models and monitoring provide useful information, they also have limitations and must be carefully designed and implemented.
Facing Climate Driven Challenges with Best Management Practices and InnovationACDI/VOCA
The MOAF through the GOJ-Adaptation Fund Programme is enhancing climate resilience in agriculture by improving water and land management in communities. It is partnering to build capacity in best practices like rainwater harvesting, gravity-fed drip irrigation, and water management strategies. Over 200 small drip irrigation systems have been provided to farmers, who were also given starter packs to boost crop production. Over 1,900 farmers were trained in climate-smart agriculture. Infrastructure like rainwater harvesting systems, ponds, and reservoirs were established or rehabilitated. Partnerships have positively impacted over 2,000 farmers and established 800 hectares of crops. Schools and 15 water-user groups were engaged to build sustainability.
Cecil County is experiencing rapid population growth that threatens its rural character. It is implementing growth management programs and working towards nutrient and sediment reduction goals to protect water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Agriculture contributes most of the nitrogen and phosphorus runoff in the county. The Northeast River Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant is upgrading to Enhanced Nutrient Removal, using membrane bioreactors, to further reduce nutrients and meet new regulatory limits. Water quality trading could help lower costs of nutrient reductions by allowing point sources like the treatment plant to purchase credits from non-point sources like farmers implementing best management practices.
People as Agents. By Dr. Richard Taylor from SEI Oxford UKweADAPT
Shrimp farming is more profitable than paddy farming, but requires river water access. Farmers near rivers are likely to choose shrimp. However, leeching from shrimp farms can increase salinity in nearby paddy fields beyond what monsoon rains can rinse, making paddy farming less viable. A high percentage of shrimp farms in an area can thus create saline conditions that influence other farmers' decisions to also choose shrimp over paddy. The document investigates using the percentage of shrimp farms to understand these dynamics.
Benedict T Palen Jr - Harnessing The Power Of Rainwater Harvesting To Revolut...Benedict T. Palen, Jr
Benedict t palen Jr thinks this creative methodology moderates water, improves rural efficiency and adds to a stronger and eco-accommodating cultivating framework.
The document discusses a project aimed at improving food security for poor farmers through better water management. The project partners with various organizations to strengthen water harvesting and irrigation. It has implemented household water supply systems and small-scale irrigation schemes in 6 food insecure regions, benefiting 65 households and 12 irrigation schemes. The project uses a bottom-up community-based approach. Evidence shows that rainwater harvesting for dry season crops and high-value production can generate additional income and meet over 42% of annual food needs. However, training and support is needed for farmers to successfully adopt these technologies on an ongoing basis. Institutional instability and staff turnover in partner organizations also posed challenges to capacity development and sustainability.
As part of the seminar held by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with IWMI, World fish and ICARDA “Options for improving irrigation water efficiency for sustainable agricultural development”.
1. The document discusses the need for more effective policies and incentives around sustainable and efficient water allocation and management in India. It notes the rising stress on water resources and the inequalities created by current water policies.
2. It proposes a shift towards incentives that focus on farm-level technologies and practices rather than input-based subsidies. New incentive instruments are needed to efficiently support water use and dryland agriculture.
3. Key recommendations include equipping small farmers with resources to adopt water-saving technologies, increasing investment in water infrastructure, establishing cost-recovery water tariffs, and designing incentives around sustainable technologies and practices.
Presentation - Seventh Roundtable on Financing Agricultural Water - Pieter Wa...OECD Environment
This document summarizes a roundtable discussion on opportunities for investments in agricultural water to contribute to resilient economic recovery from COVID-19. The discussion focused on 4 pillars: 1) ensuring water for food production and environmental sustainability, 2) supporting vulnerable farmers' access to irrigation, 3) ensuring financial viability of irrigation service providers, and 4) focusing on sustainability and resilience in economic rebound efforts. Significant investment is needed to address underfunding of irrigation infrastructure and services. New approaches are also required to tap private sector financing while ensuring equitable access to water resources.
Water and Food Security Nexus Regional Gap AnalysisICARDA
This document discusses gaps in policies around the water and food security nexus in dry areas. It identifies three key gaps: (1) the weakness in scaling up successful case studies, (2) incentives that impact water efficiency lie outside the water domain requiring multidisciplinary action, and (3) the absence of explicit food security strategies to guide water interventions given different country pathways. It emphasizes improving competitiveness and inclusiveness for small farmers through access to technology, credit, and markets. Demand management and improving productive and allocative efficiency are also highlighted as important for future policy reforms around agriculture and water scarcity issues.
Through 10 years of research across multiple river basins in Africa and Asia, the Challenge Program on Water and Food analyzed water, food, and poverty issues affecting 1.5 billion people living on less than $1.25 per day. The program addressed these complex problems through basin-focused research that developed sustainable solutions for water management, agricultural intensification, and benefit sharing through stakeholder engagement. Key outcomes included identifying cropping systems and land uses for the Mekong basin that increased benefits for communities while allowing for hydropower development, and institutional and technical innovations in the Ganges basin that supported diversified and resilient agricultural systems.
Water-smart agriculture (WaSA) is an approach that balances water availability, access, and use across different sources in a socially, environmentally, and technically sustainable way. It seeks to maximize returns while protecting environmental flows and ensuring equality. WaSA was developed as water challenges are most sensitive to climate change, and agriculture depends on water cycles. WaSA brings policy and practice coherence to water for agriculture and links water to development. It overlaps with climate-smart agriculture and sustainable intensification but specifically focuses on water-related challenges. The objectives of WaSA in East Africa are maximizing outcomes, ensuring sustainability, and transitioning to prosperity through principles of increasing productivity, value, and sharing of water resources.
This document discusses a watershed approach to improving water quality in California's Lower Salinas River Valley. A consortium of organizations was formed to encourage local nutrient management solutions and integrate on-farm practices with edge-of-farm and off-farm treatments. Key practices include matching nutrient applications to crop needs, cover cropping, sediment controls, and treatment wetlands/bioreactors. While some successes were seen, regulatory inconsistencies have undermined cooperation. The group aims to test a watershed coordination concept and provide guidance on practices to better meet upcoming regulatory requirements. Monitoring of on-farm and treatment area water quality will evaluate the approach.
1) The document describes a decision support tool being developed to increase farmer adoption of cover crops by demonstrating their short-term benefits for soil water and nitrogen conservation.
2) An on-farm network trial across 6 states is measuring factors like nitrate loss, infiltration rates, biomass production, and nitrogen content in cover crop and no-cover crop treatments.
3) Real-time data and modeling tools will provide farmers comparisons to help quantify cover crops' water retention and nitrogen contributions to subsequent cash crops. The goal is to overcome perceptions that cover crops reduce water and increase fertilizer needs.
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