Managing Water Shortages for Agriculture During a Dry Season by Community Participation in Ban Thung Hang and Ban Mae Jok Fah, Lampang Province
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The community of Ban Thung Hang and Ban Mae Jok Fah, Thung Phueng sub-district, Chae Hom district, Lampang province suffer from insufficient water for farming in a dry season. This research has the objective to develop a model for managing water shortages for agriculture in a dry season of both villages. The research conducted in September 2018 to January 2020 involves the communities in solving the problem by joint planning, analyzing the shortages and exploring the area for water path details, water resource maps, community maps, coordinates and altitude above sea level. The solution to the problem is building weirs to store water for use in a dry season. The result of the operation is 1) a weir built in Ban Thung Hang and three in Ban Mae Jok Fah. A suitable construction for the context of Ban Thung Hang is a hand stucco weir with a water gate and a semi-permanent stucco weir for Ban Mae Jok Fah. The amount of water stored in Ban Thung Hang Weir is 248 cubic meters, and each of the three weirs of Ban Mae Jok Fah holds approximately 71.25 cubic meters of water. 2) Network partners are formed in the area. In conclusion, community members have learned, identified the problem, helped each other in problem-solving and mutually developed a sense of ownership of upstream forest resources, which creates a drive to find solutions to the water shortage problem for agriculture with the participation of the community.
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