Basic characteristics and challenges of PIM-oriented water users' associations in China
2004
Iijima, T. (National Inst. for Rural Engineering, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan))
The purposes of this report are to explain the basic characteristics of PIM-oriented Water Users' Associations (WUAs) in the large-scale irrigation districts of China, and to present their challenges. Therefore, the author collected and analyzed the articles of the case WUAs. and caught the actual condition about them from the persons concerned. As that result, basic characteristics of WUAs were found, those are 1) they are corporate bodies, 2) they have board of directors, assembly, and branch groups as their internal organizations. 3) their articles ensure the fundamental condition of democratic and autonomic organization management. 4) they manage the branch canal systems. 5) their members are water beneficiary farmers. 6) their main duties are operation and maintenance of canals, and management of water charge,...etc.. and their challenges were presented, those are 1) to make democratic and autonomic organization management take root. 2) to solve bad influences arising by members' decreasing, 3) to build the system which makes the intention of WUAs reflect on management of main irrigation facilities. 4) to build the system which WUAs can negotiate on about irrigation management.
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