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(4?m 1:13q WORLDBANK TECHNICAL PAPER NUMBER173 Water Users Associations in World Public Disclosure Authorized Bank-Assisted Irrigation Projects in Pakistan LE COPY0 Kerry J. 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Byrnes The World Bank Washington, D.C. Copyright O 1992 The lnternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLDBANK 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.20433, US-A AU rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing December 1992 Technical Papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's work to the development community with the least possible delay. The typescript of this paper therefore has not been prepared in accordance with the procedures appropriate to formal printed texts, and the World Bank accepts no responsibility for errors. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countnes they represent. 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Permission to copy portions for classroom use is granted through the Copyright Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970,US.A. The complete backlist of publications from the World Bank is shown in the annual Indexof Publications,which contains an alphabetical title list (with full ordering information) and indexes of subjects, authors, and countries and regions. The latest edition is available free of charge from the Distribution Unit, Office of the Publisher, Department F, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W.,Washington, D.C.20433, U.S.A, or from Publications, The World Bank, 66, avenue d'Iena, 75116Paris, France. LSSN:0253-7494 Kerry J. Byrnes is Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Advisor at Chemonics International in Washington, D.C.to the U.S.Agency for International Development Latin American and Caribbean Agriculture and Rural Development Technical Services (LACTECH) Project. Cover: Bottom right photo shows Water Users Association (WUA)members meeting to discuss water problems. Top left photo shows one of the positive results of WUAefforts-an improved brick and cement-lined watercourse carrying water more efficiently to farmer fields. The map (bottom left) illustrates the watercourse in relation to the larger irrigation system. The cube (top right) represents the complex of management decisions that farmers, through their WUA,make in regard to water control structures, water use, and organization for problem solving. Credits: The cover's montage was conceived by the author and executed by the World Bank's art staff. The two photos are courtesy of the Pakistan On-Farm Water Management Progranmme.The schematic map of a Pakistani irrigation system is from Merrey (1986b),while the water management cube is from Uphoff, et al. (1985). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Byrnes, Kerry J., 1945- Water users associations in World Bank-assisted irrigation projects in Pakistan / Kerry J. Byrnes. p. cm. - (World Bank technical paper, ISSN 0253-7494; no. 173) Includes bibliographical references (p ). ISBN0-8213-2111-0 1. Irrigation-Economic aspects-Pakistan. I. Title. IL Series. HD1741.P13B95 1992 333.91'3'095491-dc2O 92-15644 CIP - iii - FOREWORD The field study carried out by sociologistKerry J. Byrnes on Pakistan's water users' associations (WUA) examinesone of the most interesting social experimentsin World Bank financed irrigation projects. The essence of this experiment is a significant enhancementof the organizational capacity of the local social actors in state owned irrigation systems. This capacitybecomes a strategic resource for developmentand environmentalmanagement. Informal associationsof users at the watercourse level first appeared in Pakistan about 18-20 years ago. Often they were loosely rooted in pre-existing,non-water related, kinship systems or neighborhoodnetworks. Formal WUAs, as organizedstructures with defined functions and recognized legal status, were first established in 1981. Since then more than 14,000 WUAs have been formally constituted. To cover all of Pakistan's irrigated land, watercourseby watercourse, some 100,000WUAs would be needed. Althoughthere is still a long way to go, the creation of these 14,000 organizations - notwithstandingtheir weaknesses, teethingproblems, or various failures and setbacks - is already an extraordinaryaccomplishment. It is a leap forward in asserting users' roles and participationin water management,in purposivelycreating a new social fabric intended to endure, and in mobilizinghuman and material resources for immediateactivities of mutual benefit. The developmentof these new social patterns is vividlyreconstructed and insightfullyexamined by the authorof this study, which informsboth the practitioners who might be interested in replicatingthis developmentand the researchers interested in understandingchange. Controversyand failures have surroundedmany richly financedirrigationprograms which invested only in the physical canal