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4.
Participatory water management and capacity building
: Tankha and
Fuller (2010) emphasized the role of creating institutions to facilitate stake-
holder participation, administrative reforms, and capacity building in water
resources management. Rational price recovery from the consumer is the
only option to address inefficiency and excessive use.
5.
Public participation
: A grassroots or a bottom-up approach to conflict res-
olution involves participation in water management. Building on traditional
knowledge and indigenous water structures and management systems may
be cost-effective (Tankha and Fuller 2010).
6.
Payments for ecosystem services
: Farmers in the upstream region of a
watershed must be rewarded for conserving water and reducing nonpoint
source pollution through payments for the “green water credits.”
8.8 LINKING SECURITY OF FOOD, WATER,
SOIL, AND CLIMATE IN SOUTH ASIA
There is a strong link between water security, food security, soil security, and
climate security. Sustainable management of these three resources is essential
to human well-being and ecosystem functions (Figure 8.3). The link is espe-
cially important in intensively managed agroecosystems (Alagh 2001; Alauddin
and Quiggan 2008; Douglas et al. 2009). The goal is to produce more food with
Blue
vs.
green water
Water
Soil
Food
security
Drought/
flood
syndrome
Soils as
source or
sink of GHGs
Climate
FIGURE 8.3
Dependence of food security on the interactive effects of climate, water, and
soil resources.
