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1 van Koppen, Barbara; Tarimo, A. K. P. R.; van Eeden, A.; Manzungu, E.; Sumuni, P. M. 2016. Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania. Water Alternatives, 9(3):588-607.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water law ; Water rights ; Water policy ; Water use ; Water power ; River basin management ; Taxes ; Rural areas ; Suburban areas ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Poverty ; State intervention ; Multiple use ; Infrastructure ; Equity ; Economic aspects ; Case studies / Tanzania / Pangani River Basin / Rufiji River Basin / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047791)
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This paper focuses on the application of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Tanzania. It asks: how did IWRM affect the rural and fast-growing majority of smallholder farmers' access to water which contributes directly to poverty alleviation and employment creation in a country where poverty and joblessness are high? Around 1990, there were both a strong government-led infrastructure development agenda and IWRM ingredients in place, including cost-recovery of state services aligning with the Structural Adjustment Programmes, water management according to basin boundaries and the dormant colonial water rights (permits) system. After the 1990s, the World Bank and other donors promoted IWRM with a strong focus on hydroelectric power development, River Basin Water Boards, transformation of the water right system into a taxation tool, and assessment of environmental flows. These practices became formalised in the National Water Policy (2002) and in the Water Resources Management Act (2009). Activities in the name of IWRM came to be closely associated with the post-2008 surge in large-scale land and water deals. Analysing 25 years of IWRM, the paper identifies the processes and identities of the losers (smallholders and – at least partially – the government) and the winners (large-scale water users, including recent investors). We conclude that, overall, IWRM harmed smallholders' access to water and rendered them more vulnerable to poverty and unemployment.
2 van Eeden, A.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. Whose waters? large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. Water Alternatives, 9(3):608-626. (Special issue: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in southern Africa).
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Agricultural development ; Large scale systems ; Water acquisitions ; Water governance ; Water users ; Water rights ; Licences ; Development policies ; Legislation ; Land acquisitions ; Investment ; State intervention ; River basins ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Private enterprises ; Sugar industry ; Biofuels ; Case studies / Tanzania / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047821)
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In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon. In parallel, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been promoted in the country and globally as the governance framework that seeks to manage water resources in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This article asks how IWRM manages the competing interests as well as the diverse priorities of both large and small water users in the midst of foreign direct investment. By focusing on two commercial sugar companies operating in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania and their impacts on the water and land rights of the surrounding villages, the article asks whether institutional and capacity weaknesses around IWRM implementation can be exploited by powerful actors that seek to meet their own interests, thus allowing water grabbing to take place. The paper thus highlights the power, interests and alliances of the various actors involved in the governance of water resources. By drawing on recent conceptual insights from the water grabbing literature, the empirical findings suggest that the IWRM framework indirectly and directly facilitates the phenomenon of water grabbing to take place in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania.
3 Mdee, A. 2017. Disaggregating orders of water scarcity - the politics of nexus in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. Water Alternatives, 10(1):100-115.
Water scarcity ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Political aspects ; Water use ; Energy ; Food production ; Rice ; Farmers ; Economic aspects ; River basins ; Institutions ; Ethnography ; Case studies / Tanzania / Choma / Dakawa / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048092)
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This article considers the dilemma of managing competing uses of surface water in ways that respond to social, ecological and economic needs. Current approaches to managing competing water use, such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the concept of the water-energy-food nexus do not adequately disaggregate the political nature of water allocations. This is analysed using Mehta’s (2014) framework on orders of scarcity to disaggregate narratives of water scarcity in two ethnographic case studies in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania: one of a mountain river that provides water to urban Morogoro, and another of a large donor-supported irrigation scheme on the Wami River. These case studies allow us to explore different interfaces in the food-water-energy nexus. The article makes two points: that disaggregating water scarcity is essential for analysing the nexus; and that current institutional frameworks (such as IWRM) mask the political nature of the nexus, and therefore do not provide an adequate platform for adjudicating the interfaces of competing water use.
4 van Eeden, A.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2017. Whose waters?: large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. In Mehta, L.; Derman, B.; Manzungu, E. (Eds.). Flows and practices: the politics of integrated water resources management in eastern and southern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.277-300.
Agricultural development ; River basins ; Integrated management ; Water resources development ; Water management ; Water distribution ; Water governance ; Development policies ; Land acquisitions / Tanzania / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G154 MEH Record No: H048285)
5 Mehta, L.; Derman, B.; Manzungu, E. (Eds.) 2017. Flows and practices: the politics of integrated water resources management in eastern and southern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. 366p.
Integrated management ; Water resources development ; Water management ; Water policy ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Water rates ; Water allocation ; Water use ; Water rights ; Water governance ; Political aspects ; River basin management ; Stakeholders ; Agricultural development ; Gender ; Policy making ; Corporate culture ; Land reform ; Equity ; Catchment areas ; Decentralization ; Taxation policy ; Development policies ; Farmers ; Political aspects ; Case studies / East Africa / South Africa / Zimbabwe / Mozambique / Tanzania / Uganda / Manyame / Mazowe / Sanyati / Inkomati / Limpopo River Basin / Wami-Ruvu River Basin / Nile River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G100 MEH Record No: H048571)
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