%0 Generic %D Submitted %T Ethiopia: Institutional environment & local coping strategies within a MUS system in Legedini %A Martine Jeths %A Eline Boelee (contact) %A Frans Huibers %A Desalegne Simachew %X

This M.Sc thesis analyzes the recent installation of infrastructure in Legedini: a borehole with diesel pump and the development of a nearby spring for health and food. As the technologies were too complicated and too costly and insufficiently embedded in village institutions, they were abandoned after the first break down. This highlights the need for technologies that are affordable, developing alternative sources of income or accepting people’s perpetuated dependence on external aid.

%G eng %0 Generic %D 2006 %T Ethiopia- Integrated multi-purpose water services in Tigray %A Michiko Ebato %A Samuel Yehdego %A Eline Boelee %A Amanuel %A Bekele Abaire %A Desalegne Simachew %A Mintesinot Behailu %A students %X

This report synthesizes experiences with various multiple-use water schemes by design in the Adidaero (NGO-supported multi-purpose facilities) and Wukro watersheds (government-supported homestead water harvesting ponds and shallow wells) in Tigray Region. It identifies technological, institutional, and financial factors that help and hinder sustainable multiple uses of water resources for improved livelihoods. The report is based on longitudinal field research, two MSc theses (water harvesting ponds for home gardens and water quality of water harvesting ponds and shallow wells) and three MSc theses (shallow wells for crop production; household uses of ponds; groundwater).

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