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The Role of Statutory and Local Rules in Allocating Water between Large- and Small-Scale Irrigators in an African River Catchment
(Elsevier, 2012-01)
This paper presents a case study of large- and small-scale irrigators negotiating for access to water from Nduruma River in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania. The paper shows that despite the existence of a formal statutory ...
Levels of community participation and satisfaction with decentralized wildlife management in Idodi-Pawaga Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis online, 2017-09-14)
Participatory approaches to conservation are viewed as a plausible alternative to the old ‘fortress conservation’ approach. The design and implementation of these approaches in developing countries have tended to embrace ...
Transition Management for Improving the Sustainability of WASH Services in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa—An Exploration
(MDPI, 2018-11-05)
This paper explores how transition management processes can be designed to address the
unsustainability of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in informal settlements in cities
in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ...
Formalization of water allocation systems and impacts on local practices in the Hingilili sub-catchment, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis online, 2013-05-31)
Water scarcity caused by increased demands often leads to competition and conflict over water in many river catchments in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the local level, water users have in many places been able to solve water ...
Water allocation and management in an emerging spate irrigation system in Makanya catchment, Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2011-09)
Although spate irrigation systems are risk-prone, they can be an important component for livelihood security in semi-arid areas. Spate uses water (flood water), which upstream users often do not require, as rainfall during ...
Estimating groundwater recharge on the southern slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2019-12-03)
This paper used three methods namely: water-table fluctuation (WTF), soil moisture balance (SMB), and chloride mass balance (CMB) to estimate groundwater recharge in a degraded Kahe catchment located on the southern slope ...
Differentiated Access: Challenges of Equitable and Sustainable Groundwater Exploitation in Tanzania
(Water Alternatives, 2018)
Groundwater is an important resource for a large share of the global population and economies.
Although groundwater dependence in most sub-Saharan African countries is relatively low at the national level,
localized ...
The dynamics between water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity sustaining canal institutions in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania
(IWA Publishing, 2012-10-01)
It has been suggested that the collective action needed for integrated water management at larger spatial scales could be more effective and sustainable if it were built, bottom-up, on the nested arrangements by which local ...
Polycentrism and pitfalls: the formation of water users forums in the Kikuletwa catchment, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis online, 2013-05-31)
Catchment forums have to address the reality that river catchments typically cover several administrative districts and have overlapping arrangements of state-led and locally created institutions. Institutional nesting has ...
Indigenous knowledge on development and management of shallow dug wells of Dodoma Municipality in Tanzania
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2018-04-19)
Dodoma city, central Tanzania, seats in a semi-arid region of East Africa with limited rains and surface water resources.
Consequently, the area largely depends on shallow and deep aquifers for its freshwater needs. Owing ...