Improving Irrigated Agriculture Through Integrated Water Resources Management In Klaten Regency: An Organizational Approach
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2013-03-31
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Balai penelitian Agroklimat dan Hidrologi
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In developing countries as Indonesia, competition in water use for agriculture, industry and domestic purposes is increasingly tight often result in conflict. The unplanned population dynamic, population growth and settlement shift exacerbates the problems with increasing demand for industrial and domestic uses. Unfortunately, without the availability of appropriate data on supply and demand water allocation are increasing in the other sectors at the expense of agriculture. This condition will lead to conflict among water users. Farmers that produce food for all people in the country are very often become the losersin many negotiation among the stakeholders. The water supply is decreasing and more unpredictable due to decreasing the water retention capacity because of watershed degradation, and becoming less predictable because of climate change. While the demand are increasing because of population growth and developing economy and aggravated by urbanization to the urban areas downstreams. Klaten Regency is one of rice center production in Indonesia as a typical case of water sharing problem not only among the stake holder but also among farmer water users as well. The curiousity among the stake holder was triggered by the several water regional situation factors i.e. no rainfall and weak river flows during the dry season, disorganization of former collective management
system, degradation of irrigation network, illegal water intake, lack of canal maintenance ets. The multi user of water resources and its spatial distribution of Klaten Regency.
The decreasing water availability problems for rice field particulary in downstream area have caused the third growing season can not be implemented if there is no provision of supplementary irrigation from groundwater. Given that the issue of disputes between water users in the Klaten Regency become more frequent and more complex, CIRAD and IAHRI propose and take the initiative to develop a participatory approach intended for all stakeholders on the agreement a step towards the Integrated Water Resources Manamegent.
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A Agriculture/Pertanian, F Plant production/Produksi Tanaman::F06 Irrigation/Irigasi