Water management issues and problems in Africa.
2007
Lankford, B. | Dickinson, S.
An enquiry into pressing issues in contemporary water resource management in Africa reveals an extensive, well-researched and heavily debated literature. This paper strives to reveal this through a brief discussion of four prominent issues or 'problems' in contemporary water resource management across Africa; integrated water resource management involving decisions about allocation; health, domestic water and sanitation; agricultural water management; and climate change. The first three represent policy arenas that are complementary to each other, but to some extent are also competing in terms of donor focus. The fourth is an emerging contextual issue that is helping to refocus and renew efforts in water management. The most significant dimension of these issues of water resource management in Africa today may be the degree of interdependence that exists between the four issues and therefore in the difficulties and hard choices associated with deciding which to prioritize. In addition, as with many contemporary issues spanning environment, culture and geography, water resource problems in Africa are characterized by a complex overlap between environmental, socio-economic, political, financial and technical viewpoints and concerns.
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