Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand
Many farms in tropical countries suffer from droughts in the dry season and sometimes even in the rainy season. In order to significantly increase the capacity to store water, the grassroots Farmer Wisdom movement in Northeast Thailand innovated pond construction on homesteads. This Working Paper fi...
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International Water Management Institute
2010
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| author | Penning de Vries, Frits W.T. Ruaysoongnern, Sawaeng |
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| description | Many farms in tropical countries suffer from droughts in the dry season and sometimes even in the rainy season. In order to significantly increase the capacity to store water, the grassroots Farmer Wisdom movement in Northeast Thailand innovated pond construction on homesteads. This Working Paper first documents how pond water is mainly used to irrigate crops and fruit trees, and is also used for livestock or fish, and for domestic uses, even if ample piped water is available. Households were also found to harvest rainwater from roofs; take water from canals and streams; lift water manually from shallow wells and with electric pumps from deep wells; channel run-off from roads to paddy fields; use precipitation as green water on fields; and buy bottled water. Most households combine at least six of these nine water sources. The second part describes scenarios and some outcomes of a new simulation model, BoNam. This model provides guidelines for the optimal size and site of such ponds according to biophysical factors (weather, soil and crops), socioeconomic factors (prices, availability of labor and off-farm income) and household aspirations. |
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| spelling | CGSpace392322025-11-07T08:46:12Z Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand Penning de Vries, Frits W.T. Ruaysoongnern, Sawaeng water use multiple use water supply farm ponds farmers attitudes households farm size rural development surveys simulation models decision making supplemental irrigation Many farms in tropical countries suffer from droughts in the dry season and sometimes even in the rainy season. In order to significantly increase the capacity to store water, the grassroots Farmer Wisdom movement in Northeast Thailand innovated pond construction on homesteads. This Working Paper first documents how pond water is mainly used to irrigate crops and fruit trees, and is also used for livestock or fish, and for domestic uses, even if ample piped water is available. Households were also found to harvest rainwater from roofs; take water from canals and streams; lift water manually from shallow wells and with electric pumps from deep wells; channel run-off from roads to paddy fields; use precipitation as green water on fields; and buy bottled water. Most households combine at least six of these nine water sources. The second part describes scenarios and some outcomes of a new simulation model, BoNam. This model provides guidelines for the optimal size and site of such ponds according to biophysical factors (weather, soil and crops), socioeconomic factors (prices, availability of labor and off-farm income) and household aspirations. 2010 2014-06-13T13:51:45Z 2014-06-13T13:51:45Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39232 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute Penning de Vries, F.; Ruaysoongnern, S. 2010. Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 29p. (IWMI Working Paper 137) doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2010.208 |
| spellingShingle | water use multiple use water supply farm ponds farmers attitudes households farm size rural development surveys simulation models decision making supplemental irrigation Penning de Vries, Frits W.T. Ruaysoongnern, Sawaeng Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand |
| title | Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand |
| title_full | Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand |
| title_fullStr | Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand |
| title_short | Multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast Thailand |
| title_sort | multiple sources of water for multiple purposes in northeast thailand |
| topic | water use multiple use water supply farm ponds farmers attitudes households farm size rural development surveys simulation models decision making supplemental irrigation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39232 |
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