Simple water-use accounting of the Indus basin
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.