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Bibliothèque alternative approach to sustainable water users' organization in national irrigation systems: the case of the Khlong Thadi Weir System, southern Thailand

alternative approach to sustainable water users' organization in national irrigation systems: the case of the Khlong Thadi Weir System, southern Thailand

alternative approach to sustainable water users' organization in national irrigation systems: the case of the Khlong Thadi Weir System, southern Thailand

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Date of publication
Décembre 2008
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201300854207
Pages
23-39

Thai national irrigation systems, serving a large number of small paddy farmers, require water users' organization for effective and sustainable joint management; however, water users' organizations (WUOs) presently cover only 27% of the total irrigation area. This three-year action research investigated the difficulties in organizing water users in the Khlong Thadi Weir System in southern Thailand by immersion into the socio-economic conditions of Muslim farmers in farm turnout No. 4 of the 1L-4R-LMC canal and the conventional on-farm irrigation development there. We found the following: (1) subsistence farming and unstable tenancy discourage farmers from increasing their formal participation in irrigation management; (2) kinship is important but effective only in a limited space; (3) the conventional method of providing short ditches in a limited project timeframe creates a structural bias; (4) intrinsic internal water conflicts make the hydraulic relationship alone an inadequate basis for water users' organization; (5) alternatively, the social relationship between individual farmers and their community emerges as a promising scaffold for water users' organization; (6) the state irrigation agency should consider adopting a more vital role by supporting WUOs, tambon administration organizations and villages with needed incentives, technical information, and capacity building so that the WUOs are ultimately the decision makers. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Ounvichit, Tassanee
Ishii, Atsushi
Kono, Satoshi
Thampratankul, Kanjana
Satoh, Masayoshi

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