This paper on Water for Rural Development is divided into two parts. The first part outlines the most important issues from IWMI's point of view on water for rural development, with a focus on developing countries. This part identifies, discusses and provides recommendations for key areas for interventions in water resources development and management in the context of rural development. The second part of the document provides analyses of present and future water resources in the World Bank's defined regions.

The IPCC has compiled the best available scientific methods into published guidelines for

estimating greenhouse gas emissions and emission removals from the land-use sector. In order

to evaluate existing GHG quantification tools to comprehensively quantify GHG emissions

and removals in smallholder conditions, farm scale quantification was tested with farm data

from Western Kenya. After conducting a cluster analysis to identify different farm typologies

GHG quantification was exercised using the VCS SALM methodology complemented with

This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the

series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises

in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture

in the Basin is extensive with the construction of dams, barrages, and link canals to

distribute water, with modern engineering to support irrigation starting as early as the

mid 1800s.

Net runoff is about 10% of total precipitation. Irrigated agriculture covers 20% of