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

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dc.contributor.author Mwangi, Moses
dc.contributor.author Marinus, Mattheus E. M. R.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-03-04T08:02:03Z
dc.date.available 2015-03-04T08:02:03Z
dc.date.issued 2009
dc.identifier.uri http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/5034/ASCInfosheet5water.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.seku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1019
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1019
dc.description.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 en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher African Studies Centre en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries African Studies Centre infosheet;Volume 5
dc.subject Africa en_US
dc.subject ASC en_US
dc.subject pastoralism en_US
dc.subject water management en_US
dc.subject Maasai (African people) en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.title Ignoring Another Inconvenient Truth?: Challenges in Managing Africa's Water Crisis en_US
dc.type Book en_US


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