Yangtze Basin Water Resources Project

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The Yangtze Basin Water Resources Project will raise agricultural production and incomes; reduce the risk and impact of floods; introduce a more sustainable and cost-effective system of operation and maintenance of irrigation and drainage schemes; and promote institutional reform and strengthening and improve planning and environmental monitoring in the water sector. Key institutional development objectives will be to introduce comprehensive river basin management, and self-financing irrigation and drainage districts based on farmer participation. This will promote cost recovery, decentralization of services delivery, and participation by users which are key elements of Government and Bank water resources policy. The project will be the first Bank Group supported comprehensive water resources operation in China.