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Watershed Management institutional aspect

Watershed Management institutional aspect. Land husbandry in dry prone area Module 556. By - Zeremariam G. Mosazghi 21/3/00. What is watershed. Watershed. Land area from which rainfall or snowmelt drains into single water body.

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Watershed Management institutional aspect

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  1. Watershed Managementinstitutional aspect Land husbandry in dry prone area Module 556 By - Zeremariam G. Mosazghi 21/3/00

  2. What is watershed • Watershed Land area from which rainfall or snowmelt drains into single water body Indicates particularly for surface drain flow small watershed < 60 km square

  3. WatershedManagement holistic approach applied with in an area defined by hydrological not political, boundaries, integrating the water process impact from both point and non point sources. “The comprehensivedevelopment of basinso as to make productive use of all its natural resources, and also protect them” (FAO) The rational utilisation of land and water resources of watershed for optimum production with minimum hazard to natural resources” (Indian national committee for IHP)

  4. WatershedApproaches Integrated development Financing for implementing Peoples’ participation Effective organisation

  5. Watershed management A rational WSD management approach to consider Resources Environment Society …and economic as a whole

  6. Watershed management steps • Information gathering Service facilities such as extension org., bank, market, etc Land ownership, cropping system, and yield Rainfall, runoff, and erosion problems Information of existing water sources Topography,vegetation, land use Data of Population and livestock statistics • Choose appropriate development components • involve people • Organisational approach • Costing and financing • Aware politicians, decision makers and planers • Implementation and co-ordination with other agencies

  7. Practices Watershed management practice • Restoring and protection forests • Any soil and water conservation methods • (cover and barrier control methods) • Macro water harvesting methods • Every activity increase the productivity with • minimum damage to the ecology

  8. Watershed management Impacts • Increase yield • Crop, fodder, and water • employment and subsidies • Reduction Less soil erosion • Runoff and flood *Externality • Reduction Sedimentation & • surface water downstream • Related effect

  9. Problems • Subsidies related • Dependence • Retarding SCWD of neighbour • Water development • Immigration of livestock and overgrazing • Diseases

  10. Solution • Subsidies must be justified • On detailed assessment of local of labour • and remittance off-season work • Impact of the development should be clear • Clear constitution in resource in utilisation • Diseases • Health activity launching

  11. Conclusion • Sustainable watershed management is an approach that • appreciate peoples’ economic priority on their participation • Institutionalising farmer led natural resource • planing and management • Development options must generate from target group • and must be economically visible • Plans should take in to account source of finance • Grants must be based on national cost per unit area

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