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Water has become increasingly central to addressing multiple
development and environmental objectives in the course of climate
change. Exploring the multiple dimensions of water governance,
policy and management in a holistic way is thus imperative for
financial innovations to take place in the water sector. This book
constitutes, first of all, a reference document allowing African
managers and policymakers to broaden their knowledge of financing
strategies and tactics in order to raise funds for water services
provision and water resources development. Additionally, the book
reviews the agenda on water and sanitation services in order to
ensure water resources development has a place in funding
structures. The book presents and discusses contemporary
instruments of financing water services and water resources
development in Africa. In this regard, three major thematic areas
are recognized as key:Â Coverage of the legal and
institutional contexts pertaining to water financing innovations;
an assessment of economic mechanisms and principles subtending
financial innovations in the water sector; and applications of
innovative water financing mechanisms based on scale formation and
adoption practices. This book highlights the principles of economic
profitability and financial sustainability to enable
creditworthiness and a snowball effect of borrowing, and will be of
interest to researchers, policymakers, and academics, as well as
development agencies and financiers of sustainable development and
environmental (Blue and Green) economies.
In recent years, the need for stakeholders' cooperation and
adjustment of their lifestyles as well as land-use activities has
ever been so stressed, owing to uncertain climatic vulnerabilities
facing most ecosystems. Green economy has been propounded as a
paradigm shift from business as usual. The study conducted in
Muooni Catchment (1965 to 2010) reveals increasing trend of minimum
and maximum annual temperatures with subsequent decreases in
rainfall and discharges . Water balance is predicted to decrease
and farming water vulnerability to worsen by 2030. Yet, just like
in Moses' account of the burning thornbush of Mount Hored, Muooni
Catchment is literally burning without being consumed. What makes
this catchment greening? What are some capabilities of this farming
community? What benefits result from a green water economy in this
catchment in the course of climate change? This book puts in motion
an exciting discovery on the "Warming and Greening" experience of
the people of Machakos District in Kenya. It displays innovative
and integrated tools for Vulnerability-Capability Assessment (VCA+)
in a watershed for agricultural water development.
Water stress and land degradation are causes of food insecurity and
poverty in marginal and dry lands of Kenya. South-East Kenya is
particularly facing increased risk of crop failure due to increased
farming water costs under rainfall variability. This book develops
a hybrid approach that integrates spatially distributed variables
of plant water use with mathematical description of water
availability and farmers' water demand. It assesses hydro-
geomorphologic impacts affecting efficient use of farming water in
Muooni Catchment. It also determines the extent to which land-use
activities and other externalities impact on Muooni Dam's active
water storage capacity. Finally, it simulates the economic order
quantity (EOQ), the limit average cost (LAC) and the minimum
efficient scale (MES) of farmers' water demand under above normal,
normal and below normal rainfall regimes. The book is intended to
foster efficient water use in the course of climate change. It may
assist irrigation planners, dams and watershed managers as well
impact assessment researchers .
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