Xinjiang Turfan Water Conservation Project

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The objective of the Xinjiang Turfan Water Conservation Project for China is to mitigate the risk of flooding, reduce groundwater overdraft, increase industrial and domestic water supply, and raise farmers' income from irrigated agriculture in the arid Turpan basin of Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. There are five components to the project, the first component being Evapotranspiration (ET), based integrated water management in the Turpan Basin. With the aim of facilitating the prefecture government's decision to improve water allocation in the Turpan Basin and reduce groundwater overdraft, an innovative integrated basin-wide water management program will be developed and applied that closely links targets for consumptive use of water at the basin-level with the respective targets for consumptive use of water at the county, township, and water users association (WUA) levels. The second component is the increase of upstream storage capacity. This component include: construction of the Alagou dam; the Meiyaogou dam; and the Ertanggou dam. The third component is the real water savings in irrigated agriculture. Carrying out of irrigation management measures in the Turpan River Basin including inter alia: (i) engineering measures such as construction or rehabilitation of the main canals delivering water from the three new reservoirs to water users downstream, a switch from furrow to drip irrigation, land leveling, canal lining, and improved drainage; (ii) agronomic measures such as cropping pattern changes, plant breeding, soil fertility and fertilization, soil salinity control, plastic-culture with mulching, tunnels and greenhouses, and tillage and weed control; and (iii) other irrigation management measures such as irrigation scheduling, volumetric water charges, increase of water charges, and the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater. The fourth component is the preservation of a Karez system. Finally, the fifth component is the institutional capacity building and project management.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Transportation,FY17 - Water, Sanitation and Waste Management

World Bank Group

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Water Supply and Storage, Manufacturing (Industrial), Waste Processing and Treatment, Hydro, Raw Materials, Government, Commercial