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Appendix B: Summaries of Workshop Presentations
Appendix B: Summaries of Workshop Presentations
Pages 119-126
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data in India from the past 300-400 years in an attempt There is also clear evidence of glacial retreat in the area, to reconstruct long-term climate record. In the western though there are not many studies on how glacial melt Himalaya, tree-ring chronologies indicate an increase affects regional precipitation.
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Climate change for Northern Gangetic Plain and Himalayan Region Pakistan, as in the rest of the world, will involve deciSumant Nigam, University of Maryland, College Park sions on water management in a context in which past trends are no longer effective guides for future action. Analysis of the 20th century observational record Pakistan in particular has suffered some dramatic and can yield insights about future variability and change in unusual hazards over the past decade, ranging from
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has the largest contiguous surface irrigation system in the world. Much of the water entering the system is withdrawn for irrigation purposes, reducing the amount Glacial Lakes and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods of water available to flush the system.
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Pakistan has the lowest level of female labor, and there Water managers across the Himalayan region is not much movement in female labor force participawill confront a host of overlapping socioeconomic, tion. Education levels have improved dramatically, and environmental, and policy challenges as they strive to gender participation has nearly reached parity.
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Even Afghanistan, water delivery is affected by glacial runoff. modest improvements in regional water management There is a large mobile water component that may be and infrastructure can lead to expansions in both energy increasing with increasing temperatures, which gives and food production.
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Social conditions are improving, includ- improving water management. This includes major ing education (e.g., increasing female enrollment in efforts to move water from the southern watersheds primary and secondary schools, and increasing literacy to the north and developing and diverting waters among farmers)
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Hence changes in flow in the Indus River stan and Bhutan, it is designated as a "least developed arising from climate change or other causes, or in the country." There are planned large-scale dams, but balance between water supply and demand (mainly for small-scale, community-centered water management irrigation) send a ripple effect through the entire Pakiwould be preferable to top-down planned projects and stan economy and have implications for food security, might provide greater flexibility in the face of climate poverty and prosperity, and ultimately for personal and change.
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