Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications
Groundwater is a crucial source of water for domestic use and increasingly used for irrigation in the southern Terai region of Nepal. However, increasing groundwater extraction and other changes are depleting groundwater levels. Well drillers interviewed in Barahathawa said that water used to be ava...
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| author | Bruns, Bryan Khadka, Manohara KC, Sumitra Rauniyar, Amrita |
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| description | Groundwater is a crucial source of water for domestic use and increasingly used for irrigation in the southern Terai region of Nepal. However, increasing groundwater extraction and other changes are depleting groundwater levels. Well drillers interviewed in Barahathawa said that water used to be available at 35 feet below the surface but now in some places they have to go to 60 feet or more for reliable water. This is an example of problems and the need for better institutions to govern a shared, invisible, and often poorly understood resource. Groundwater crop-choice games are part of a toolbox of activities that can help people learn and work together to improve groundwater governance. This brief presents lessons and implications from an initial exercise with groundwater games in Barahathawa Municipality in Madhesh Province in Nepal. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1625542025-11-06T04:24:31Z Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications Bruns, Bryan Khadka, Manohara KC, Sumitra Rauniyar, Amrita capacity development governance groundwater irrigation Groundwater is a crucial source of water for domestic use and increasingly used for irrigation in the southern Terai region of Nepal. However, increasing groundwater extraction and other changes are depleting groundwater levels. Well drillers interviewed in Barahathawa said that water used to be available at 35 feet below the surface but now in some places they have to go to 60 feet or more for reliable water. This is an example of problems and the need for better institutions to govern a shared, invisible, and often poorly understood resource. Groundwater crop-choice games are part of a toolbox of activities that can help people learn and work together to improve groundwater governance. This brief presents lessons and implications from an initial exercise with groundwater games in Barahathawa Municipality in Madhesh Province in Nepal. 2024-11-21 2024-11-21T16:54:50Z 2024-11-21T16:54:50Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162554 en https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1473 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1317 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1316 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101289 https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13862-280130 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Bruns, Bryan; Khadka, Manohara; KC, Sumitra; and Rauniyar, Amrita. 2024. Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications. CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162554 |
| spellingShingle | capacity development governance groundwater irrigation Bruns, Bryan Khadka, Manohara KC, Sumitra Rauniyar, Amrita Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications |
| title | Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications |
| title_full | Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications |
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| title_short | Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications |
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| topic | capacity development governance groundwater irrigation |
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