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1 Mkoga, Z. J.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Lankford, B.; Rao, K. P. C. 2005. Disparity of attitudes and practices on a concept of productivity of water in agriculture in the Great Ruaha River Sub-Basin. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 11p.
River basins ; Water use ; Productivity ; Assessment ; Irrigation programs / Tanzania / Ruaha River Sub-Basin / Rufiji Basin / Usangu Plains
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037496)
2 Sokile, C. S.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2005. Managing the business: potential and pitfalls of water rights and water tariffs in allocating and managing water in water stressed basins: the case of Rufiji Basin in Tanzania. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 11p.
River basins ; Water stress ; Water resource management ; Water rights ; Water rates ; Water allocation / Tanzania / Rufiji Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037510)
3 Sokile, C. S.; Kashaigili, J. J.; Kadigi, R. M. J. 2003. Towards an integrated water resource management in Tanzania: the role of appropriate institutional framework in Rufiji Basin. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 28: 1015–1023.
Water resource management ; Institutions ; Water user associations ; Water rights ; Water law / Tanzania / Rufiji Basin / Usangu Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041070)
Over the past 50 years, changes in the intersectoral water use in the Rufiji Basin have been enormous. A growing human population, migration and increasing demands in the basin have culminated this change. The basin, however, still lack an appropriate integrated management approach. This has resulted into inter- institutional conflicts, ineffectiveness, gaps in management imperatives and duplication of efforts. This paper reviews the existing institutional linkages identifies the gap and proposes an appropriate institutional framework which involve questions of institutional arrangements and the assignment of responsibilities among various levels of development, ensures stakeholders participation, accommodates adaptive change and remain self sustainable. The basic argument of this paper is that water management issue is both a question of developing stakeholders’ participation and transferring state’s competence to water user associations. Such an endeavour requires a complete and complex institutional framework, which would define clearly the role and rule of each stakeholder in water resource management. The paper further argues that; in Tanzania, the institutions that are involved in water management are loosely connected and lack basic coordination and are often at the periphery of the water management agenda––divorced from the water management programs; the predominance of isolated institutions locked up in narrowly defined activities with no interactive learning process will continue to hamper national aspirations to manage water; and that to change this situation will require innovative reforms in national institutions and institutional learning.
4 Majule, A. E.; Mwalyosi, R. R. B. 2005. The role of traditional irrigation on small scale production in Rufiji Basin, Southern Highland Tanzania: a case of Iringa Region. In Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.). Proceedings of East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7 – 9 March 2005. Theme five: water economics and livelihoods. Morogoro, Tanzania: Soil-Water Management Research Group, Sokoine University of Agriculture. pp.298-311.
Irrigated farming ; Traditional farming ; River basins ; Flood plains / Tanzania / Rufiji Basin / Iringa Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: CD Col Record No: H041168)
5 Kadigi, Reuben M. J.; Mdoe, N. S. Y.; Ashimogo, G. C.; Morardet, Sylvie. 2008. Water for irrigation or hydropower generation?: complex questions regarding water allocation in Tanzania. Agricultural Water Management, 95: 984-992.
Water demand ; Water allocation ; Models ; Rice ; Irrigated farming ; Water power ; Water transfer ; Economic aspects ; Income ; River basins ; Catchment areas / Tanzania / Great Ruaha River Catchment / Rufiji Basin / Usangu / Mtera-Kidatu Reservoir System
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G148 KAD Record No: H041473)
The need for achieving efficient, equitable and sustainable use of water resources to meet water demands of different sectors is pressing, particularly in areas where water resources are dwindling. Along with this is the quest for having a good understanding of the value of water in its different uses. Using a simplified model derived from the residual imputation approach (the Change in Net Income Model)we assess the value of water in irrigated paddy and hydropower generation in the Great Ruaha River Catchment (GRRC) in Tanzania. The estimated productivity of water (PW) in irrigated paddy ranges from 0.059 to 0.250 kg/m3 (for withdrawn water) and 0.126 to 0.265 kg/m3 (for consumed water). The PW in hydropower generation is estimated to range from 0.45 to 1.68 kWh/m3. In monetary terms the value of water in irrigated paddy is estimated at 15.3 Tanzanian shilling (Tsh)/m3 (for water withdrawn) and 0.19 Tsh/m3 (for water consumed). The values of water for hydropower generation are relatively higher than for irrigated paddy, ranging from 59 to 226 Tsh/m3. Yet, irrigated paddy also supports livelihoods of about 30,000 agrarian families in the GRRC, with gross revenue of about Tsh 15.9 million per annum and GRCC paddy contributes about 14– 24% of national rice production. We conclude that understanding the value of water in its alternative uses is key to fostering informed debate on water management and allocation, identifying the basis for making ‘agreeable’ trade-offs, the potential for improvement and creating linkages with water allocation options particularly in agricultural-based economies, where agriculture competes with other sectors and where water re-allocation decisions may involve large transfers of water from the sector generating the highest pro-poor returns (agriculture for this case) to the sectors generating the highest economic returns (hydropower generation and industrial uses).
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