Innovation in focus: climate resilience – water financing partnership facility (Pakistan)
The paper focuses on Punjab farming households and explains how using technology to estimate irrigation canal deficits can promote more efficient water use, better land management and provide farmers with reliable water supplies. Highlighting the link between climate change, water-related disasters, and economic shocks, it analyzes water accounting and shows how expanding the use of technology can help deliver equitable water supplies throughout the region.
The Pakistan activity has brought together farmers, government agencies, leading universities, researchers, canal operators, and consultants to develop innovative technology. Using high-level remote sensing technology and mathematical programming techniques for improved canal management has the potential for expansion and replication. The methodology offers a discreet intervention to improve management in contrast to the costly rehabilitation of irrigation infrastructure. The brief recommends that the decision support system must be transferred to canal operators in order to maximize the use and benefits of the technology and promote sustainability.
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