Village Tank Cascade Systems (VTCSs) in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka have evolved as
sustainable ecosystems through human interventions to ensure water availability and other …

In the semi-arid regions of South Asia, tank systems are the major source of irrigation. In
India, the Telangana state government has initiated the Mission Kakatiya program to …

Research on social–ecological systems is rapidly expanding globally in response to human-
induced climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. Safeguarding these …

Sri Lanka, as an island located near the southern tip of India and the Asian Continent and in
the core area of the South Asian Monsoon has developed its own unique forms of Hydraulic …

Hydrology of a tank cascaded basin in semiarid region is unique and different from a plain
terrain hydrology as it consists of intervening surface storage structures called tanks. The …

Tanks are the small water storage reservoirs colonized in arid and semi-arid regions of
southern India. Tanks were constructed to collect the local runoff and have been an …

Village tanks have been used for irrigation purposes from a longer period of time and its
behavior as a cascade system can be considered as an efficient methodology towards a …

Inundated areas of the Mekong Delta are the most important regions for agricultural
production in both Cambodia and Vietnam. With the increase in population and greater …