Linking Ecohydrology and Integrated Water Resources Management: Institutional challenges for water management in the Pangani Basin, Tanzania

Msuya, Tuli S.; Lalika, Makarius C.S.

doi:10.1016/j.ecohyd.2017.10.004

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“…Foster and Ait-Kadi [32] argued that for effective groundwater management, the hydrogeological delineation would serve better than river/lake basin delineation. The effectiveness and coordination between various institutions and governance entities, including town authorities, has not been well addressed [37,93]. Effectiveness of the basin organizations in Uganda, Ghana, and Tanzania is as well in infancy stages, trying to establish legitimacy in the already existing institutional framework [37,40,85].…”

Section: Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reducing Groundwater Contamination from On-Site Sanitation in Peri-Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing Transition Management Attributes towards Implementation of Water Safety Plans

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High urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resulted in increased peri-urban groundwater contamination by on-site sanitation. The World Health Organization introduced Water Safety Plans (WSP) towards the elimination of contamination risks to water supply systems; however, their application to peri-urban groundwater sources has been limited. Focusing on Uganda, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper reviews limitations of the existing water regime in addressing peri-urban groundwater contamination through WSPs and normative attributes of Transition Management (TM) towards a sustainable solution. Microbial and nutrient contamination remain prevalent hazards in peri-urban SSA, arising from on-site sanitation within a water regime following Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) principles. Limitations to implementation of WSPs for peri-urban groundwater protection include policy diversity, with low focus on groundwater; institutional incoherence; highly techno-centric management tools; and limited regard for socio-cultural and urban-poor aspects. In contrast, TM postulates a prescriptive approach promoted by community-led frontrunners, with flexible and multi-domain actors, experimenting through socio-technical tools towards a shared vision. Thus, a unified risk-based management framework, harnessing attributes of TM and IWRM, is proposed towards improved WSP implementation. The framework could assist peri-urban communities and policymakers in formulating sustainable strategies to reduce groundwater contamination, thereby contributing to improved access to safe water.

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Section: Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reducing Groundwater Contamination from On-Site Sanitation in Peri-Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing Transition Management Attributes towards Implementation of Water Safety Plans

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“…Multilateral organisations including the World Bank has consistently call for decentralised governance in the areas of health care, education and natural resource management in less developed countries owing to the benefits of decentralisation (World Bank 2004). Nevertheless, numerous stakeholders comprising water user groups at the community levels often do not have adequate funding and institutional competence to significantly contribute to the management of community level water resource systems (Acheampong 2011;Knüppea and Meissner 2016;Msuya and Lalika 2018). The lack of funding and institutional competence has been identified as a major setback to the decentralisation concept and has significantly affected local level water management.…”

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“…Fundamentally, a proper approach in the management of community level water resource systems in the long-term ensures sustainable water supply to households (Yeleliere et al 2018;Kelly et al 2017) and remain an important component of bringing sustainability to water utilisation (Opare 2011;Distanont et al 2017). Managing sustainable water supply successfully at the local level means operating and maintaining a water supply system on a day-to-day basis so that the system continuous to work and supply water as planned (Msuya and Lalika 2018;Okpara et al 2018). In development discourse, sustainable water supply influences development as well as promote better health and living conditions which explicitly impact on social, economic and community development (Tantoh and Simatele 2018;Knüppea and Meissner 2016;Apipalakul et al 2015).…”

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Community-level mechanisms and strategies for managing sustainable water supply systems: lessons from Bongo district of northern Ghana

Akolgo¹,

Ayentimi

2019

Environ Dev Sustain

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The study examined the nature of community level mechanisms and strategies for the management of sustainable water supply systems in the Bongo District through the lens of the structural functional theory perspective. The study employed a multiple method approach with a total of 167 respondents through face-to-face interviews and household survey. The evidence suggests that community level participation in water resource systems management is seen in decision-making, rule formulation and general day-to-day management via regular community meetings and consultation with community members, elders and opinion leaders. Beneficiaries of water systems were solely in-charge of the operations and maintenance of water systems in the community with very limited government support and involvement. The evidence also points to women playing a major role in local level management of water resource systems. Interestingly, traditional cultural practices (e.g taboos) as well as social norms previously used in the management of water resource systems has gradually become obsolete and ineffective with the advent of formal education and Christianity in the local communities.

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“…This promising approach, however, faces operational and financial challenges. In application, integration of multiple subsystems is required (Msuya and Lalika, 2017;Xia et al, 2017). Strategy implementation requires inter-sectoral coordination at a basin-wide level while addressing incompatible, multi-source, data with different formats (Shao et al, 2016).…”

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Conceptual Merge of Ecohydrologic Watershed and Sponge City Techniques for Managed Sustainability and Strengthened Adaptive Capacity of Nile Delta Coastal Lakes, Egypt

2019

ijrte

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Nile Delta coastal zone in Egypt has special socioeconomic and environmental importance, with internationally acknowledged wetland systems. However, sustainability and adaptive capacity are compromised with progressive developments. Coastal lakes serve basins with intermixed industrial, urbanized and agricultural activities, which require an integrative approach for strengthened adaptivity and sustainability management. This research study presents an innovative management plan that conceptually merges the EcoHydrology approach with the recently initiated Sponge City approach. Principles of both approaches are reviewed to select components that are applicable and practically approved in the Egyptian conditions and evolving changes in the study area of Edku coastal lake. With an analysis of regional activities as well as the use of remote sensing techniques, the study first establishes a base insight into the historic spatiotemporal alterations in Edku lake and its served basin. Then, the climate change impact is incorporated by water balance-related factors to consider potential flood and/or drought risks in the adaptation plan. The study presents preliminary results with System Dynamics (SD) simulations. Various scenarios have been examined using VensimPLE×32-based SD modeling. The scenarios covered alternate combinations of the proposed measures. Optimal 25-year managerial EcoHydro-Spongic Strategy is found with gradual application of Sponge City measures to prevent 30% of wastewater discharges, while Ecohydrology measures are projected to reduce 60% of pollutant loads into Edku lake from agricultural lands. Further 10% of pollution reduction is achievable with applied phyto-technology within the Lake

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Linking Ecohydrology and Integrated Water Resources Management: Institutional challenges for water management in the Pangani Basin, Tanzania

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

Reducing Groundwater Contamination from On-Site Sanitation in Peri-Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing Transition Management Attributes towards Implementation of Water Safety Plans

Reducing Groundwater Contamination from On-Site Sanitation in Peri-Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing Transition Management Attributes towards Implementation of Water Safety Plans

Community-level mechanisms and strategies for managing sustainable water supply systems: lessons from Bongo district of northern Ghana

Conceptual Merge of Ecohydrologic Watershed and Sponge City Techniques for Managed Sustainability and Strengthened Adaptive Capacity of Nile Delta Coastal Lakes, Egypt

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