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Potable water strategies in southern Mudug, Somalia, with special reference to the local economics of motorised borehole systems for watering nomadic livestock

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Abstract

The southern Mudug region of Somalia has been without coherent national government and an international non-governmental organisation (NGO)/UN presence in recent years. Despite this, a functioning water economy can be found, with supply elements based on rainwater harvesting (berkads), shallow wells, motorised deep borehole systems and water tankering. The author argues that this is partly because groundwater has a clear economic value to villages (they can sell it to nomads) and to nomads (without it they will lose the capital that is their livestock), and because there is a revenue collection structure at motorised borehole systems. The ability to understand the economic value of water from the perspective of the user community is a key ingredient in a successful water-supply project in impoverished rural areas. © Springer-Verlag 2007.

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Author(s): Banks D

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Hydrogeology Journal

Year: 2008

Volume: 16

Issue: 4

Pages: 765-777

Print publication date: 01/06/2008

ISSN (print): 14312174

ISSN (electronic): 1435-0157

Publisher: Springer

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-007-0253-2

DOI: 10.1007/s10040-007-0253-2

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