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SPEED GROUNDWATER STORY – MENARID ProjectsYour Name: Ardeshir Sayah- Acting NPM in MENARID project I.R.Iran

Title of your story: Behvard Underground dam

Answer 1:

Final Workshop for GEF MENARID Projects“Scaling-up Integrated Natural Resource Management, furthering knowledge on groundwater resources management and strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation systems”

16 - 18 June 2014 Beirut, Lebanon

• Iran– Iran average annual raining: 240 mm

– Iran average annual evaporation: 800 mm

– 17 billion cubic meter raining

– 10.2 BCM evaporation 6 BCM is usable

SPEED GROUNDWATER STORY – MENARID ProjectsYour Name: Ardeshir Sayah- Acting NPM in MENARID project I.R.Iran

Title of your story: Behvard Underground dam

Answer 1:

Final Workshop for GEF MENARID Projects“Scaling-up Integrated Natural Resource Management, furthering knowledge on groundwater resources management and strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation systems”

16 - 18 June 2014 Beirut, Lebanon

• Water management & Dams – If we constructing dams increase evaporation

– It needs a technique to conserve water flow and under surface water in soil layers• Qanat , Etc

Behvard Village

– Behavard had lots of fruitful gardens

– Because of climate change

– Behvard converted to a Dry land large immigration of rural areas happened

– Story of Constructing Behvard Underground dam

• Behvard Underground water dam

– Measures

• 50 participatory workshop for – Problem statement

– Stakeholder analysis

– Defining measures

– constructing dam

• Behvard Underground water dam

– Measures

• Biological rehabilitation measures in upstream (150 Hec.)

• Mechanical watershed management measures (130 cases)

• Population 50 500 people

• Organic production of pomegranate gardens is exporting to other part of the country

• Economical impact assessment: Benefit/ Cost =1.49

• Behvard Underground water dam

– Participatory process of establishing, Managing, operating, and water allocations

– Now we have a little lake by transferring water from underground dam by wells and pipes

• Highlights– It was First experience in I.R.Iran

– Replicate it to three other sites in Iran like Kermanshah Razin and etc.

What is INRM?

• National and governmental integration

• Local level integration

• Legislation

• Institutionalization

• Dynamic model

• …

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It needs to have proper interactions between real stakeholders (not only managers but also experts and communities)

ICARDA facilitate these movement of MENARID projects and we got lots of ideas from each other now its time to Shift the approach from table top to field visit of best practices to sharing MENARID filed knowledge properly.