<h1>Financing for integrated water resources management secures tranche to modernize irrigation and strengthen institutional capacity and certification.</h1> A sovereign loan agreement finances a multi year investment program to improve water availability in selected river basins through IWRM and irrigation modernization, funding modernization of a key irrigation system, implementing sub basin planning, monitoring and performance benchmarking, and building capacity and certification for water sector staff and user cooperatives, with external financing covering the principal share and state government co financing the balance.