Abstract:

Sustained economic, social, and environmental growth in Manupali watershed is highly dependent on judicious utilization of the resource base (e.g. water), effective control mechanisms, and fair sharing of benefits by all users - farmers, Local Government Unit (LGU), agri-business companies, National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and irrigators, National Power Corporation (NPC), and society in general. As demand for water in Manupali outstrips supply, a number of things are happening simultaneously: 1) rising conflict between different user-groups over who can use water and how much they can use; 2) allocation through issuance of water rights; and 3) collaboration of government and non-government agencies to develop viable interventions to manage the watershed.