We are pleased to annouce that we have launched a new interface of the modernization of Irrigation schemes website. Currently we are transferring the old content to the new site. Please visit the NEW website here.
Modernizing irrigation management - the MASSCOTE approach. 
This mapping system and services for canal operation techniques manual is available from FAO Sales and Mareketing group Please write to publications-sales@fao.org
To download MASSCOTE files follow the link.
MASSCOTE presentations are located here.
An initiative for a Knowledge Hub to Re-invent Irrigation in the Asia-Pacific to be launched at the 1st Asia Pacific Water Summit
The Asia Pacific Water Forum is convening the 1st Asia Pacific Water Summit in Beppu, Japan, 3-4 December 2007. Click here to review the proposed initiative.
The 3rd Southeast Asia Water Forum will take place this year in Luala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 22 to 27 October 2007. For general information on the Forum, please go to: http://3rdseawf.water.gov.my/ .
September 2007 - FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 63. This paper presents a proposed comprehensive methodology for analysing canal operation modernization, which is based on Mapping System and Services for Canal Operation Techniques (MASSCOTE). It discusses the main elements of canal operation and organization before describing the steps of the MASSCOTE approach in detail.