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Irrigation Management Transfer and WUAs’ dynamics: evidence from the South-Kazakhstan Province

Author: Andrea Zinzani

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 2/2015

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in Kazakhstan, as in the other Central Asian republics, significant changes in both the water and agricultural sectors have emerged; water management shifted from a purely technical issue to a sociopolitical and economic one leading to several institutional and organizational changes. To address this transitional context and its issues, since the 1990s international donors have supported the establishment of Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) and the Water Users Associations (WUAs), both initiatives sponsored and related to the IWRM framework. This paper discusses these processes in the South-Kazakhstan Province, 10 years since the enactment of the law formalizing WUAs; three districts were selected for the analysis. The paper concludes that the IMT has been implemented in different and ambiguous methods and times, reflecting specific district dynamics and issues; furthermore, government support of IMT has decreased, leading to unexpected changes in its role in local water management and a reconsideration of the future scenario.

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Title: Irrigation Management Transfer and WUAs’ dynamics: evidence from the South-Kazakhstan Province
Author: Andrea Zinzani
Publication date: 01-01-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3209-6

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