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Water Programme of Action

Waters of National Importance for Irrigation

MAF Technical Paper: 04/10

ISBN: 0-478-07850-1
ISSN: 1171-4662

August 2004

• Executive Summary
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Methodology
  • 2.1 Waterbodies and area
  • 2.2 Land Use
  • 2.3 Prices and costs
  • 2.4 Key Assumptions
• 3. Results
• 4. Discussion
• 5. Identification of methodological issues
  • 5.1 Identifying irrigated area, water use and land use
  • 5.2 Assigning value
  • 5.3 Flowon Impacts
  • 5.4 Marginal return vs average return
  • 5.5 Sharing of water
  • 5.6 Legislative impediments to potential
  • 5.7 Unknown potential of private irrigation development
• 6. Conclusions
• Appendix 1: Waterbody and community schemes served and proposed
• Appendix 2: Location maps of scheme areas and waterbodies
• Appendix 3: Methods for evaluating the National benefit from irrigation
• Appendix 4: Assumptions used in irrigation value calculations
• References
• Download as a PDF File [PDF  970K]

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