Water Management Education in the East African Region: A Review of the Challenges to Be Addressed

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

doi:10.3390/su151511597

Water Management Education in the East African Region: A Review of the Challenges to Be Addressed

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

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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511597
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2023

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© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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B.N., M.R., M.K., J.C. and M.B. gratefully acknowledge the support from Coventry University, UK, and resources offered by the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience (CAWR). Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania have institutional frameworks used to set rules for water service provision in urban areas. An institutional framework for water management comprises various organisations that are responsible for managing and developing water resources at various levels of society []. Applying an institutional framework is an essential procedure for making a foundation for sustainable water management. This could be through water conservation policies such as water awareness programs [] to influence the citizens to utilise less water in their everyday water practice. This would reduce the overall water demand and would be a cheaper solution than infrastructural projects [] such as the Integrated Water Management and Development Project which is funded by the World Bank with a loan worth 313 million USD []. The root cause of several failures such as weak enforcement bodies [] and inadequate human resources [] in service delivery and water management is the lack of comprehensive institutional frameworks [].

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Coventry University

Keywords

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

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