Ignoring Another Inconvenient Truth? Challenges in Managing Africa's Water Crisis

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5034
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Rutten, Marcel; Mwangi, Moses
Date:	2009
Agency:	Economy, Environment, Exploitation research group, African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
Series:	African Studies Centre Info Sheet
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5034
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	pastoralism water management Maasai (African people) indigenous institutions
Abstract:	"Water is a basic need and an important catalyst for accelerating socio-economic development in semi-arid areas. In southern Kenya people left poverty behind because of developing water sources in a semi-arid setting. However, these improved shallow wells are running dry not becaue of climate change but due to a hydrological drought which resulted from a change in land tenure that triggered the depletion of groundwater resources by export oriented flower farms."

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