On-farm Water Management in the Korean Public Water Management System

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Participatory irrigation management (PIM) has been promoted in developing countries to achieve higher efficiency and sustainability in irrigation projects, while some industrial countries in eastern Asia tend to have public water management systems.Korea particularly has strongly promoted public management since the 1980s. It eventually abolished farmers irrigation organizations through the establishment of a public corporation (now the Korea Rural Community Corporation, KRC) in 2000, thereby introducing a comprehensive public water management system with no farmer membership fees. This study was conducted to analyze problems that have arisen from the use of this strong public water management system in a small and private farming system. This analysis is based on close observation of the behavior and activities of farmers and KRC staff together with a questionnaire administered to selected farmers. The study clarified that no agreement has been made related to the responsibility for farm ditch management, which has engendered several problems: 1) the KRC has no capacity to solve water distribution disputes in the farm ditches; 2) farm ditches have been insufficiently maintained by the KRC and farmers; and 3) the farmers have little willingness to solve these problems, but expect the KRC to do so.
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