New ways of water development for pastoral areas: experiences from southern Marsabit district.
Abstract
During the last 40 years, water development in the southern Marsabit District of Kenya concentrated mainly on drilling boreholes and constructing large dams and pans which are difficult to maintain without financial aid. In order to make the nomads independent of outside aid, the Marsabit Development Programme has introduced animal traction for dam and pan construction and promotes the management of shallow wells. This paper reports the experiences encountered so far in the integration of water development within the natural resource improvement programme and discusses lessons learnt during the 1991/2 drought in the area in terms of water development and nomadic lifestyle.
Citation
Bake, G., Gichuki, F. N., Mungai, D. N., Gachene, C. K. K., & Thomas, D. B. (2000). New ways of water development for pastoral areas: experiences from southern Marsabit district. In Land and water management in Kenya: towards sustainable land use. Proceedings of the Fourth National Workshop, Kikuyu, Kenya, 15-19 February, 1993. (pp. 239-241). Soil and Water Conservation Branch, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.Publisher
University of Nairobi, college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,