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Driving Revolutionary Ideas Into Practice

Chapter 1


Infrastructure for Climate Change: Drains, Taps, and Canals

Although constructing water infrastructure is expensive, returns and sustainability can be enhanced by lowering constraints to adoption, optimizing water usage, and strengthening institutions that support collective action in operations and maintenance.

Case Study 1. Releasing Economic Constraints to Get Irrigation Working

Case Study 2. Building More or Managing Right?

Case Study 3. Caring for the Investments We Make

Case Study 4. Investing in Drainage or Managing Waste? Different Costs, Same Results