Stakeholders’ Participation and Its Effect on Water Projects Sustainability in Machakos County, Kenya

This paper discusses a series of discusses how web sites now report international water project information, and maps the combined donor investment in more than 6000 water projects, active since 1995. The maps show donor investment: • has addressed water scarcity, • has improved access to improvised water resources, • correlates with growth in GDP, • appears to show a correlation with growth in net private capital flow, • does NOT appear to correlate with growth in GNI. Evaluation indicates problems in the combined water project portfolios for major donor organizations: •difficulties in grouping projects over differing Sector classifications, food security, or agriculture/irrigation is the most difficult. • inability to map donor projects at the country or river basin level because 60% of the donor projects include no location data (town, province, watershed) in the title or abstracts available on the web sites. • no means to identify donor projects with utilization of water resources from training or technical assistance. • no information of the source of water (river, aquifer, rainwater catchment). • an identifiable quantity of water (withdrawal amounts, or increased water efficiency) is not provided. • differentiation between large scale verses small scale projects. Recommendation: Major donors need to look at how the web harvests and combines their information, and look at ways to agree on a standard template for project titles to include more essential information. The Japanese (JICA) and the Asian Development Bank provide good models.

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A 2050 Vision for Colorado's water supply future

Water Practice & Technology ◽

10.2166/wpt.2012.095 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

Author(s):

N. Rowan ◽

E. Hecox ◽

S. Morea

Keyword(s):

Water Supply ◽

Water Conservation ◽

Colorado River ◽

Economic Recession ◽

The State ◽

Severe Drought ◽

Water Shortages ◽

Water Projects ◽

Demand And Supply ◽

Local Water

The last decade has brought many changes to Colorado's water supply outlook. Despite the recent economic recession, the state has experienced significant population growth, and Colorado's population is expected to nearly double within the next 40 years. Other pressures on Colorado's water supply include severe drought, a desire to meet multiple needs (i.e., municipal, environmental, recreational) with existing resources, and impacts to agriculture due to water shortages, urbanization, and transfers to new users. To address these challenges, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) has undertaken a visioning process to explore solutions to these future water supply challenges. As part of this process, CWCB has led the state in identifying demand and supply strategies to meet the state's future water needs while considering agriculture and the environment. These strategies have been combined into varying portfolios that include methods such as conservation, local water projects, new Colorado River development, and agricultural transfers. This paper details the development and evaluation of these portfolios and describes stakeholder's efforts to balance meeting Colorado's water needs in the future.

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