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:  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 .