Resources
Global: RIPPLE-Ethiopia briefing paper 1
This briefing note provides recommendations to policy makers and practitioners on how to promote and apply a multiple-use services approach. These are based on a overview presentation of the key concepts behind the MUS approach and findings from the field.
A struggle for water rights in Upper Mustang, Nepal
This ethnographic research, by integrating historical and comparative approaches, investigated how water rights are defined and contested in a cold, arid region of upper Mustang in Nepal. The struggle for water rights was found to take place at three levels:
- to acquire and defend rights to access water;
- to defend to take part in collective decision making, and defining water rights contents; and
- to legitimize contesting claims.
Technology Adoption and Adaptation for Multiple Use Water Services in the Hills of Nepal
This paper draws on seven years of multiple use water services (MUS) development effort by International Development Enterprises and partner organizations in Nepal. It describes the genesis of the MUS work and the unique combination of technologies utilized to provide domestic and productive water services. The introduction of micro irrigation technologies enabled households to begin production of high value vegetables, increase their cash income and increase food security. However, scaling up introduction of these technologies required a way for households to increase access to a reliable water supply
Ethiopia - Gender Implications in Managing Multiple Water Supply Systems
This study investigated how the local gender relations affected men and women community members’ participation in the management of single source and multiple source MUS. These facilities improved the access to water by men and women water users. Especially, villagers who acquired access to water points have increased the volume of water they used. Although, the amount was still not sufficient to significantly improve personal hygiene, they have acquired access to better quality of water within their reach. In terms of irrigation, some farmers have been reported to have earned substantial income from the produce from the irrigated land. A few farmers around the single source MUS developed the plot where they used their share of the irrigation water. Among the committee members of each facility, women did not assume any of the leading position as chairperson or vice chairperson but worked as treasurer or observer.
Multiple sources and uses of water in North East Thailand
Many rural households in North East Thailand grow cassava and other food crops on sandy upland soil and rice on lowland clayey soil. These crops provide only a small income and the simple farming system leads to land degradation. In the 1990s, some farmers initiated management changes and developed integrated farming. Farmer networks emerged to counteract recent social and physical degradation. Successful methods include use of water for multiple productive purposes and integrated farming. The new way of farming is appreciated by the national government. It gives support through subsidies and a new water law that will give responsibility for rural water management to new local Water Resources Committees.
South-Africa - Households’ preferences and willingness to pay for multiple use water services in rural areas
Financing of multiple use (i.e. domestic and productive) water services was identified as an important ingredient to ensure improved water access for rural poor and broaden livelihood options in South Africa. Following the principles of integrated water resource management (IWRM), efficient, equitable and sustainable investments in improved water services should be based on a thorough understanding of actual demand by consumers. Comprehensive studies looking at multiple use water services are not common in South African rural areas, where most of the economic analyses focus on either domestic or irrigation water demand. This study aims at filling this gap by assessing the household demand for multiple use water services in Sekororo-Letsoalo area in the Limpopo Province.
Synthesis of topic 2.4 of the 5th World Water Forum (WWF)
A presentation given at the 5th WWF on multiple uses and functions of water services, more MDG per drop and dollar invested.
Synthesis of session 2.4.2 of the 5th World Water Forum (WWF)
A presentation given at the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) on bridging sectors to strengthen multiple uses services.
Synthesis of session 2.4.1 of the 5th World Water Forum (WWF)
A presentation given at the 5th WWF on what was done, what was learnt and what are the key messages.
Global: lessons learnt on scaling up MUS
Powerpoint presentation by Barbara van Koppen, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Nepal: analysis of the MUS learning alliance process
Powerpoint presentation by Monique Mikhail and Bob Yoder, IDE-International, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
South Asia and Global: management issues and opportunities of MUS
Powerpoint presentation by Daniel Renault, FAO, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Colombia: learning alliance for scaling up multiple use services
Powerpoint presentation by Ines Restrepo-Tarquino, Instituto Cinara Universidad del Valle, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Asia: monetary assessment of multiple functions of irrigation water
Powerpoint presentation by Kazumi Yamaoka, International Network for Water and Ecosystems in paddy fields (INWEPF), given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Ethiopia: costs and benefits of multiple use
Powerpoint presentation by Zemede Abebe [and others], RIPPLE MUS Research Team, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Global: assessment of multiple-use services for the poor
Powerpoint presentation by Mary Renwick, Winrock International, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Global: multiple functions of water management in paddy systems
Powerpoint presentation by Lee Haeng Woo, International Network for Water and Ecosystems in paddy fields (INWEPF) Korean Committee, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Vietnam: multiple uses in agro-wetland services
Powerpoint presentation by Gerardo E. van Halsema, Centre for Water and climate Wageningen, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
SADC: regional experience in community-driven water resource management (CDWRM)
Powerpoint presentation by Jonathan Chisaka, International Water Management Institute, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Africa: MUS and functions of water with the elephant pump
Powerpoint presentation by Ian Thorpe, Pumpaid, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Global: introduction to MUS framework and concepts
Powerpoint presentation by Stef Smits, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Multiple-Use Services Group, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Global: introduction to MUS session
Powerpoint presentation by Mitsukuni Watanabe, International Network for Water and Ecosystem in Paddy Fields (INWEPF), given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Global: introduction to human development, MDGs and MUS
Powerpoint presentation by Daniel Renault, FAO, given at the World Water Forum in Turkey, 2009.
Global: Learning Alliances to promote multiple use systems
This paper discusses the MUS approach and describes the ways in which the MUS project adopted horizontal and vertical learning alliances as vehicle for its action-research in eight countries.
MUS to climb the water ladder
The multiple-use water services (MUS) approach to water services takes multiple water needs of rural and periurban communities as the starting point for planning and designing new systems or rehabilitations. By overcoming the administrative boundaries between single-use sectors, MUS contributes more sustainably to more dimensions of well-being than single-use approaches: health, freedom from drudgery, food, and income. The action-research took place in 25 study areas in eight countries in five basins. The project brought global, national, intermediate level, and local partners together who were champions of MUS at the time. This paper presents some of the project findings.