The document discusses the Behvard Underground Dam project in Iran. It summarizes that: 1) Behvard village faced water shortages due to climate change and converted to a dry land, causing mass immigration. 2) To address this, an underground dam was constructed in Behvard through 50 participatory workshops involving problem identification, stakeholder analysis, and measure development. 3) The dam involved biological and mechanical watershed management and helped increase the population from 50 to 500. It led to exporting organic pomegranates and had an economic benefit-cost ratio of 1.49.

1. SPEED GROUNDWATER STORY – MENARID Projects
Your Name: Ardeshir Sayah- Acting NPM in MENARID project I.R.Iran
Title of your story: Behvard Underground dam
Answer 1:
Final Workshop for GEF MENARID Projects
“Scaling-up Integrated Natural Resource Management, furthering knowledge on groundwater resources management and strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation systems”
16 - 18 June 2014 Beirut, Lebanon
• Iran
– Iran average annual raining: 240 mm
– Iran average annual evaporation: 800 mm
– 17 billion cubic meter raining
– 10.2 BCM evaporation  6 BCM is usable

2. SPEED GROUNDWATER STORY – MENARID Projects
Your Name: Ardeshir Sayah- Acting NPM in MENARID project I.R.Iran
Title of your story: Behvard Underground dam
Answer 1:
Final Workshop for GEF MENARID Projects
“Scaling-up Integrated Natural Resource Management, furthering knowledge on groundwater resources management and strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation systems”
16 - 18 June 2014 Beirut, Lebanon
• Water management & Dams
– If we constructing dams  increase evaporation
– It needs a technique to conserve water flow and under surface water in
soil layers
• Qanat , Etc

3. Behvard Village
– Behavard had lots of fruitful gardens
– Because of climate change
– Behvard converted to a Dry land large immigration of rural areas happened
– Story of Constructing Behvard Underground dam

4. • Behvard Underground water dam
– Measures
• 50 participatory workshop for
– Problem statement
– Stakeholder analysis
– Defining measures
– constructing dam

5. • Behvard Underground water dam
– Measures
• Biological rehabilitation measures in upstream (150 Hec.)
• Mechanical watershed management measures (130 cases)
• Population 50  500 people
• Organic production of pomegranate gardens is exporting to other part of
the country
• Economical impact assessment: Benefit/ Cost =1.49

6. • Behvard Underground water dam
– Participatory process of establishing, Managing, operating, and water
allocations
– Now we have a little lake by  transferring water from underground dam by
wells and pipes

7. • Highlights
– It was First experience in I.R.Iran
– Replicate it to three other sites in Iran like Kermanshah Razin and etc.

9. What is INRM?
• National and governmental integration
• Local level integration
• Legislation
• Institutionalization
• Dynamic model
• …

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81.  It needs to have proper interactions between real
stakeholders (not only managers but also experts and
communities)
 ICARDA facilitate these movement of MENARID projects and
we got lots of ideas from each other  now its time to Shift
the approach from table top to field visit of best practices to
sharing MENARID filed knowledge properly.