[EBOOK] How to facilitate “Crop Water Budgeting” By Watershed Communities? (A Process Guide for Bringing Awareness and Facilitating Action on Water Management)

Crop Welter Budgeting Exercise is a community led process, where local communities come together to make an assessment of water resources in a given village.

In this process, villagers basically explore answers to these three sets of questions...

♦    What is the quantity of water available in the village?

□    Estimating the available water resources-by collecting the data related to rainfall in the village, water stored in different water harvesting structures of the village, quantity of water that has gone into recharging the groundwater aquifers, water that flows to this villages in streams from neighbourhood villages and any other form of water resources in the village.

♦    What is the quantity of water that is used In the village, for different purposes?

□    Estimating the water use patterns - by assessing nature of use (for what purpose - drinking, irrigation, livestock, etc) and quantity of water used (for each purpose). They also analyze the variations across seasons and years, if need be.

♦    What is the balance of water available in tile village?

□    Understanding the situation of the villagers, whether it is positive balance (“surplus”) or negative balance (“deficit”).

□    Discuss various options for conservation, use, management and regulation of water resources in the village.

□ These decisions arc expected to change the practices, beliefs and norms that could improve the water balance.

As agriculture/ crops are predominant user of water resources in villages, this exercise is largely perceived as “Crop Water Budgeting Exercise”. In reality, this covers all types of water uses in a given village.

WASSAN designed this process and conducted the Crop Water Budget Exercise in 32 projects of IGWDP. Project Facilitating Agencies (NGO Partners); resource persons, community resource persons are part of this initiative. Village leaders - members of Village Watershed Development Committee members; farmers and other opinion makers participated in these events, during September 2014 to March 2015. This document captures these processes and also converts them into guidelines; useful tips for facilitators and lessons learned from this exercise.

[EBOOK] How to facilitate “Crop Water Budgeting” By Watershed Communities? (A Process Guide for Bringing Awareness and Facilitating Action on Water Management)

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