Water management in the East African region: challenges to be addressed

Brian Nalumenya; Matteo Rubinato; Michael Kennedy; Jade  Catterson; Hilary Bakamwesiga; Matthew Blackett

doi:10.3390/su151511597

Water management in the East African region: challenges to be addressed

Brian Nalumenya^*
, Matteo Rubinato^*
, Michael Kennedy
, Jade Catterson
, Hilary Bakamwesiga
, Matthew Blackett

^*Corresponding author for this work

Coventry University
Makerere University

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Abstract

Increased urbanisation coupled with inadequate awareness of the public on the issue of freshwater resource management has affected the use and the availability of freshwater resources in urban areas of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Lake Victoria has been the clearest example, with the water level decreasing 0.005 m/year from 1993 to 2016 causing an overall drop of 0.115 m. In order to develop sustainable methods for addressing these issues, this paper critically reviews the different legal frameworks used in each country (Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania) adopted to manage the water resources and identifies the challenges faced by each legal framework applied. It also analyses the education systems implemented within these three nations to educate students at various levels about water resources and identifies the challenges involved in each system. Finally, suggestions are made for future research to be conducted to obtain specific benefits for better management of water resources in East Africa.

Original language	English
Article number	11597
Number of pages	22
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	15
Issue number	15
Early online date	27 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511597
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and
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B.N., M.R., M.K., J.C. and M.B. gratefully acknowledge the support from Coventry Univer sity, UK, and resources offered by the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience (CAWR).

UN SDGs

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SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 14 Life Below Water
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

urbanisation
education
water resource management
unified research ideas
water demand
variation of water in Lake Victoria

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