scholarly journals Examining the Benefits of Lake Kenyatta Water Users Association (LAKWA) Water Kiosks Project to Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Paul Mutinda Kituku; Dr David Gichuhi; Dr Daniel Muasya Nzengya
Keyword(s):  
Water System ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Large Families ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Water Management Planning

This research focused on examining examine the benefits that women's have realised from the implementation of Lake Kenyatta Water Users Association (LAKWA) water kiosks for supplying water to households in Mpeketoni Lamu County, Kenya. The research used mixed-method design in which quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect and analyse data. Data was collected using open and closed-ended questionnaires. They were administered using questionnaires. The research had 200 respondents comprising of 100 women from the rural settlements and 100 women in Mpeketoni division of Lamu County in Kenya. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics were used to summarise data and compare the results between rural versus urban women and large families versus small families in the research area. According to this research, it's evident that the majority of respondents have a positive perception with large families seeing more benefits of LAKWA kiosks than small families, especially for domestic uses. These are common expectation since the quantity of water raised by large families is higher than the small families. It's in their perception that the situation remains the same in the next 10 to 20 years. It was evident from this research that, women are satisfied with the design aspects of the LAKWA water kiosks. I suggest further research on the ways of including women perceptions in water management planning to improve the water intake and efficiency of LAKWA water system and indeed other water stakeholders in ensuring that it meets the objectives of sustainable development goals and vision 2030 on water and sanitation.

scholarly journals Soil-Related Sustainable Development Goals: Four Concepts to Make Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration Work

Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Keesstra ◽  
Gerben Mol ◽  
Jan de Leeuw ◽  
Joop Okx ◽  
Co Molenaar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Water System ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Awareness Raising

In the effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to food, health, water, and climate, an increase in pressure on land is highly likely. To avoid further land degradation and promote land restoration, multifunctional use of land is needed within the boundaries of the soil-water system. In addition, awareness-raising, a change in stakeholders’ attitudes, and a change in economics are essential. The attainment of a balance between the economy, society, and the biosphere calls for a holistic approach. In this paper, we introduce four concepts that we consider to be conducive to realizing LDN in a more integrated way: systems thinking, connectivity, nature-based solutions, and regenerative economics. We illustrate the application of these concepts through three examples in agricultural settings. Systems thinking lies at the base of the three others, stressing feedback loops but also delayed responses. Their simultaneous use will result in more robust solutions, which are sustainable from an environmental, societal, and economic point of view. Solutions also need to take into account the level of scale (global, national, regional, local), stakeholders’ interests and culture, and the availability and boundaries of financial and natural capital. Furthermore, sustainable solutions need to embed short-term management in long-term landscape planning. In conclusion, paradigm shifts are needed. First, it is necessary to move from excessive exploitation in combination with environmental protection, to sustainable use and management of the soil-water system. To accomplish this, new business models in robust economic systems are needed based on environmental systems thinking; an approach that integrates environmental, social, and economic interests. Second, it is necessary to shift from a “system follows function” approach towards a “function follows system” one. Only by making the transition towards integrated solutions based on a socio-economical-ecological systems analysis, using concepts such as nature-based solutions, do we stand a chance to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality by 2030. To make these paradigm shifts, awareness-raising in relation to a different type of governance, economy and landscape and land-use planning and management is needed.

scholarly journals The Gender STEM Gap and Its Impact on Sustainable Development Goals and the Big Four Agenda in Kenya: A Synthesis of Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jane Amunga ◽  
Amadalo Maurice Musasia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Big Four

Women have made significant progress in education through marked increase in enrolment. However, the same zeal has not been demonstrated in STEM based subjects and careers. The gender STEM scale still tips in favour of men in many countries across the world. This imbalance in the STEM fields owing to dominance by men is what creates the STEM Gap. In this paper, we synthesize literature and secondary data to show these disparities. We appreciate that STEM gap drivers are numerous and therefore zero in on what we consider the critical STEM gap drivers with respect to Kenya. We identify and succinctly discuss these critical drivers which are: self-concept and lack of resilience, teachers’ and parental expectations, role models and stereotyping, work environment and family obligations and finally weak scholastic performance. We also assess how this gender STEM gap is likely to affect the achievement of a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) and the Big Four Agenda and in the process, steer the country away from the path of industrialization envisaged in Vision 2030. We explain why it is important to mitigate the STEM gap and get more women in STEM. We recommend that, parents should deconstruct their own stereotypes; teachers should debunk the myth about STEM being the preserve of superior mental abilities that girls lack, students should acknowledge that STEM drives the economy and opens up employment opportunities, institutions should have a STEM endowment fund and industries should institute policies that enhance retention of women in STEM careers. It is expected that these if addressed should enhance women’s participation in STEM based subjects so that they can build careers in STEM.

‘It’s Not a Reservoir; It’s Valuable Agricultural Land’: Controlled Use of Water and Deliberate Flooding in Lincolnshire

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Rowling
Keyword(s):  
Water Retention ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Internal Drainage ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Water Management Planning

The Lincolnshire lowlands owe their existence to a long-term programme of formal and informal drainage, by which the landscape has been managed since the Roman period. The public bodies that have held responsibility for this drainage, namely the Commissions of Sewers followed by the Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) from 1930, are often perceived as solely aiming to remove water from the land as quickly as possible. Recent water management planning in Lincolnshire has begun to explore the idea of water retention, but, as this article will show, this is not a new idea. Far from keeping water out at all costs, Lincolnshire’s drained, farmed landscape is a porous one, which has benefited from a long history of deliberate, managed flooding and small-scale sacrifice of valuable agricultural land to water. This is a lacuna which exists in both the academic literature, and in the stories people involved in the drainage boards tell about themselves.

Water and Sanitation

2015 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Abdi D. Osman ◽  
Priscilla Robinson ◽  
Vivian Lin ◽  
Darryl Jackson ◽  
Mutuku Mwanthi
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Vital Resource

Globally, the provision of clean and safe drinking water to most populations has been an elusive development goal though some of us take the availability of this vital resource for granted. Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target 7.C is the target, which addresses sustainability and access to water, among other developmental goals. As the preceding targets appear elusive, Kenya is now refocussing on Vision 2030. It is important to identify reasons for this to avoid a repetition during the next fifteen years. In order to discover the factors hampering these achievements, all possible contributing factors need to be investigated and the focus of this chapter is the Kenya national legislation and policies. Based on the findings, we recommend a reassessment of policies on groundwater management, reconsideration of ideal universal goals and political commitment by state and organisational accountability to identify better strategies for achieving internationally identified standards and goals.

The Role of EM38 in Land and Water Management Planning on the Tragowel Plains in Northern Victoria

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley Broadfoot ◽  
Mike Morris ◽  
Deidre Stevens ◽  
Alfred Heuperman
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Land And Water Management ◽  
Water Management Planning

Border Institute IV: Binational Water Management Planning

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-312
Author(s):  
Rick Van Schoik ◽  
Jessica Swartz Amezcua ◽  
Erik Lee
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Water Management Planning

scholarly journals LIFE+ TRUST project: tool to assist the implementation of the Framework Directive 2000/60/CE, methodology and results

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Marsala
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Balance Model ◽  
Aquifer Recharge ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Change Effect ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Climate Change Effect ◽  
Water Management Planning

The TRUST project is funded by the European Commission’s by the Life+ Programme. The aim of the TRUST project is the identification of the adaption and mitigation measures to counteract the impacts of climate change on the groundwater of the Upper Plain in the Veneto and Friuli region in North-Eastern Italy. The TRUST project aims at implementing a water balance modelling tool to support institutions in formulating sustainable water management planning policies and best practices. This paper reviews the development and application of the tools for the groundwater balance model that simulate the groundwater deficit. Projections on the water deficit as a function of Climate Change have used future precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns derived from climate simulations (SRES-IPCC scenarios A1B and A2) of the Mediterranean region for the 20th and 21st centuries. Model outputs showed that a significant part of future water deficit might be recovered with Managed Aquifer Recharge that will permit the groundwater management preventing the climate change effect.

Water user survey on expectations of service in Guelph, ON, Canada

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Dziedzic ◽  
B. W. Karney
Keyword(s):  
Water System ◽  
User Survey ◽  
Conservation Programs ◽  
Openness To Change ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Aging Infrastructure ◽  
The City ◽  
Preferred Solutions ◽  
Residential Water

A survey was developed and conducted with residential water users in the City of Guelph, ON, Canada, with the objective of assessing their awareness, preferences, concerns, motivations, and priorities. The overall goal of this data is to improve the water system on different fronts: infrastructure, conservation programs, communication with users, and long-term strategies. Results highlight the local concerns with water scarcity, currently addressed by conservation programs, as well as water quality, aging infrastructure, and costs. Correlations between user type and answers were seldom found, showing that different residential customer segments share concerns and motivations. Even so, feedback must be sought from all customer segments, residential as well as industrial, commercial, and institutional, through different channels. The findings will allow the utility to identify preferred solutions to current issues and openness to change, as well as gaps in user and utility knowledge.

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