Water governance in tanzania – a synthesis of legal and institutional frameworks for groundwater management in the upper great Ruaha River Catchment
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Date
2024
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East African Nature and Science Organization
Abstract
The importance of groundwater resources in buffering the effects of climate
change on water scarcity and security is highly acknowledged worldwide.
However, groundwater development and use can only be sustainable with a
more robust policy and institutional arrangements related to water governance.
The purpose of this study was to analyse the legal framework of water resource
development and management in order to contribute in identifying policy
constraints to sustainable groundwater resource development and
management in Tanzania. The paper used information from literature reviews
and data collected through qualitative methods using a case study of Usangu
Plains in the Upper Great Ruaha River Catchment in Tanzania. The findings
reveal that water governance institutional frameworks are well structured to
provide guidelines on how water as a basic human resource can be utilised and
properly managed, but most importantly, these institutional arrangements
place disproportionate emphasis on groundwater. Attaining sustainable
groundwater development and use requires new disclosures and narratives in
water policy and law, integrating both surface and groundwater resources. The
weaknesses identified in groundwater governance need to be taken on Board
once, the existing water institutional frameworks open to perfection for
sustainable utilisation of groundwater resources.
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East African Journal of Environment
and Natural Resources
Keywords
Water, Groundwater, Institutional Arrangements, Regulations, and Sustainability.
Citation
https://doi.org/10.37284/eajenr.7.1.1836