Watershed Management and Restoration

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.

Watershed Management and Restoration Resources

Watercourse Improvement Manual

Publication date:
February 1, 1980
U.S. Agency for International Development
Colorado State University
In the arid and semiarid regions which comprise 50% of the world's arable land, water is the critical input on which food production increases depend. This manual discusses processes (of interest to planners) and techniques (of use to engineers, economists, and sociologists) to improve the...Read more

Citanduy River Basin Development Project: Citanduy Upper Watershed Management Project; Feasibility Report

Publication date:
January 1, 1980
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Soil and Water Conservation planning studies for the Citanduy River Basin has been in progress for over a decade. A Citanduy River Basin Development 'Master Plan' and 'Feasibility Report', published in May 1975, presented a plan for the water conservation phase of...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Indonesia
East Asia and Pacific

Environmental Studies and Natural Resource Management: an Annotated Guide to University and Government Training Programs in the United States

Publication date:
January 1, 1980
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report was prepared by the Sierra Club and addresses university courses with emphasis on environmental sustainability and the impact of human activities on areas such as forests, waterways, islands, mountains, and grazing lands.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Proposed Water Management Program for Major Irrigation Schemes in Sri Lanka

Publication date:
January 1, 1979
U.S. Agency for International Development
CH2M HILL
Because of poor irrigation management, much of Sri Lanka's agricultural lands can be farmed only occasionally or only during the Maha season -- despite the fact that sufficient rainfall exists for one or more crops per year. The purpose of this study is to determine the institutional,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Improving Irrigation Management of Farms: Annual Technical Report, 1977/1978

Publication date:
January 1, 1978
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report details the accomplishments of the Mona Reclamation Experimental Project, a project to develop a fund of water management information and gain experience in the factor limiting or accelerating its adaptation in new countries. Pakistan was the country where the study was implemented.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Pakistan
South East Asia

The Economics of Water Reform: Institutional Design for Improved Management in LdC

Publication date:
January 1, 1977
U.S. Agency for International Development
Deals with the productivity of irrigated agriculture but, at the same time, emphasizes the importance of equity in irrigated systems. Suggests irrigation potentials may be expanded through the construction of new projects; rehabilitation and modification of the infrastructure in existing projects;...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Optimum Utilization of Water Resources for Agriculture With Special Emphasis on Systems Analysis of Watershed Management; Annual Technical Report, 1974/1975

Publication date:
December 1, 1975
U.S. Agency for International Development
Plan have been initiated in conceptualizing and organizing a multidimensional information network among universities involved in AID programs. A week long watershed-management short course was held to serve as a base for the development of a set of materials which can be civilized in LDCs as...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sudan
Sub-Saharan Africa

Watershed Management in Arid Zones: A Prototype Short Course

Publication date:
March 1, 1975
U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource evolved from a short course in Saltillo, Mexico during March 1974 which was designed to help extend knowledge of water resource development and research techniques in arid and semiarid systems applicable to developing nations.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Mexico

Study of Village Organizational Factors Affecting Water Management Decision Making in Pakistan

Publication date:
March 1, 1975
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this study is to examine the social factors which affect the water management decision making of Punjabi farmers in a sample of fifteen Pakistani villages. In essence the study design is as follows: The focus of inquiry is on three dependent variables -- (1) decisions of farmers to...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Pakistan
South East Asia

Project Paper: Soil and Water Resources Survey of the Helmand-Arghandab Valleys

Publication date:
February 1, 1975
U.S. Agency for International Development
The goal of U.S. assistance in Afghanistan is to increase farm incomes. Under the first phase of the project, a soil and water survey of the areas around the Helmand-Arghandab rivers will be conducted with special reference to possible irrigation/drainage/conservation projects already identified.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Afghanistan
South East Asia

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