U. Islamov, F. Maksudov & D. Maksudova
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Documentos CIDOB, Asia
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) issues in Uzbekistan
constraints and opportunities within the basin related to effective water
resources management. It will develop
recommendations for institu-
tional streamlining, strengthening, and capacity building. Some of the
recommendations that evolve through the course of dialogue within this
task can be fed into the parallel institutional dialogue taking place at
the national level. The role of water users should figure prominently in
this strategy and recommendation for a basin water resources manage-
ment structure that involves the BISA, a basin council that represents
all water user groups (e.g. municipal, energy, industry, agriculture, and
environment), confederations of water users associations, and water us-
ers associations.
Improving Agricultural Productivity to Improve Crop Yields and Water
Use Efficiency within the Basin (Task 3.3) will examine the cropping pat-
tern of the basin, farm water use in crop production, crop production
practices, crop yields, agricultural income and other agricultural factors
to determine the overall water use efficiency of this area. It is recom-
mended that a statistically random and representative survey which is a
subset of the socioeconomic and gender survey sample be used so that it
can be studied over time to measure results of the IWRM implementa-
tion programme until 2015. Once water use efficiency is determined,
a crop budget analysis could be conducted that determines alternative
cropping which reduces water consumption, thus developing enhanced
on-farm livelihoods. Technology options for achieving water savings will
be evaluated, their costs assessed, cost and benefits compared, payback
periods estimated and investment options explored. Developing meas-
ures for water savings, the creation of a system of accounting and moni-
toring of used water, measures towards land preparation (levelling, etc)
and selection of drought-resistant crops are just some of the interven-
tions that will be considered within this task.
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