Abubakr Muhammad - <div style="text-align: justify;">This paper offers a socio-hydrological assessment of water security that compares canal irrigation entitlements with water deliveries using a conjoint analysis of system reliability and equity. We develop a set of definitions and metrics to quantitatively characterize reliability and equity using newly available datasets of 10-daily canal deliveries from 2007–2017 in the Punjab canal command areas in the Indus Basin Irrigation System of Pakistan,where emphasis has shifted from distributing historically-defined volumetric supplies to improving irrigation efficiencies and crop yields in order to achieve greater aggregate water and food security. Our analysis reveals stagnation and oscillation over time in system-level equity and reliability. We reflect on the potential to posi-tively affect canal irrigation performance and water security through a socio-hydrological approach.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keywords: Irrigation system, irrigation performance, equity, reliability, Indus basin, socio-hydrology</span></div>
Socio-hydrological assessment of water security in canal irrigation systems: A conjoint quantitative analysis of equity and reliability
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Year
2018
This paper offers a socio-hydrological assessment of water security that compares canal irrigation entitlements with water deliveries using a conjoint analysis of system reliability and equity. We develop a set of definitions and metrics to quantitatively characterize reliability and equity using newly available datasets of 10-daily canal deliveries from 2007–2017 in the Punjab canal command areas in the Indus Basin Irrigation System of Pakistan,where emphasis has shifted from distributing historically-defined volumetric supplies to improving irrigation efficiencies and crop yields in order to achieve greater aggregate water and food security. Our analysis reveals stagnation and oscillation over time in system-level equity and reliability. We reflect on the potential to posi-tively affect canal irrigation performance and water security through a socio-hydrological approach.

Keywords: Irrigation system, irrigation performance, equity, reliability, Indus basin, socio-hydrology
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Siddiqi, Afreen, James L. Wescoat, Jr., and Abubakr Muhammad. "Socio-Hydrological Assessment of Water Security in Canal Irrigation Systems: A Conjoint Quantitative Analysis of Equity and Reliability." Water Security 4-5 (2018): 44-55. 

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Afreen Siddiqi, James L. Wescoat, Jr., and Abubakr Muhammad (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Pakistan
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English
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