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1 Stockholm Water Company. 1999. Urban stability through integrated water-related management: Abstracts, The 9th Stockholm Water Symposium, 9-12 August 1999. Abstracts of proceedings of the 9th Stockholm Water Symposium. 417p.
Water resource management ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Flood control ; Groundwater ; Urbanization ; Water rights ; Developing countries ; Water reuse ; Wastewater ; Recycling ; Afforestation ; Effluents ; Recharge ; Aquifers ; Irrigation water ; Drainage ; Runoff ; Catchment areas ; Pollution control ; Flood plains ; GIS ; Public health ; Water transfer ; Water harvesting ; Water scarcity ; Water demand ; Canals ; Models ; Rivers ; Dams ; Watersheds ; Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Water quality ; Case studies / Brazil / Namibia / Saudi Arabia / Russian Federation / USA / Bangladesh / India / Kuwait / Japan / Morocco / Nepal / Yemen / Australia / Iran / South Africa / Hong Kong / Congo / Afghanistan / Iraq / West Africa / Africa South of Sahara / Mexico / Chile / Pakistan / Tanzania / Sri Lanka / Uganda / China / Botswana / Zimbabwe / Turkey / Latvia / Vietnam / Nigeria / Sao Paulo / Windhoek / Moscow / California / Silicon Valley / Dhaka / Chennai / Al-Jahra / Tokyo / Marrakech / Kathmandu / Larastan / Namakkal District / Lubumbashi / Kabul / West Bank / Gaza Strip / Benin / Niger River Basin / Calcutta / Altamira / Yangtze River / Bangalore / Maun / Okavango River / St. Petersburg / Amman-Zarqa Basin / Cochin Region / Karachi / Bombay / Istanbul / Kerala / Dar es salaam / Tianyang County / Dalu Village
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 628.1 G000 STO Record No: H024785)
2 Kjellén, M. 2000. Complementary water systems in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: The case of water vending. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 16(1):143-154.
Water supply ; Pipes ; Pumping ; Water distribution ; Infrastructure ; Water market ; Surveys ; Research methods ; Water quality / Tanzania / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H026227)
3 Mutagaywa, R. 2000. Rivers network and pollution abatement (DRNPA) Project: A case study. In Mehrotra, R.; Soni, B.; Bhatia, K. K. S. (Eds.), Integrated water resources management for sustainable development - Volume 1. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology. pp.485-489.
Rivers ; Networks ; Water pollution ; Wastewater ; Pollution control ; Case studies / Tanzania / Sinza River Basin / Dar Es Salaam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 MEH Record No: H028069)
4 Drechsel, P.; Kunze, D. (Eds.) 2001. Waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture: closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Rome, Italy: FAO; Wallingford, UK: CABI. xvii, 229p.
Waste management ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Farmers' attitudes ; Environment ; Agricultural production ; Crop yield ; Case studies ; Farming systems ; Recycling ; Vegetables ; Priority setting / Sub-Saharan Africa / East Africa / West Africa / Europe / Ghana / Kumasi / Accra / Lome / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G100 DRE Record No: H029240)
Book mainly based on papers presented at a workshop held in Ghana by IBSRAM (now part of the IWMI) and FAO on waste management and environmental protection, ameliorating problems by turning organic waste into compost for use as an agricultural fertilizer in urban and peri-urban areas.
5 Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.) 2000. Rainwater harvesting for natural resources management: A planning guide for Tanzania. Nairobi, Kenya: SIDA. RELMA. x, 144p. (RELMA technical handbook series no.22)
Water harvesting ; Rain ; Policy ; Planning ; Hydrology ; Water balance ; Evaporation ; Runoff ; Plant growth ; Water requirements ; Water use ; Groundwater ; Recharge ; Water deficit ; Drought ; Case studies ; Erosion ; Climate ; Reservoirs ; Siltation ; Rain-fed farming ; Flood water ; Drainage ; Forestry ; Catchment areas ; Water storage ; Land management ; Land tenure ; Institutions ; Local government ; Cost benefit analysis ; Decision support tools ; Databases ; Remote sensing ; GIS / Africa / Tanzania / Dar es Salaam / Hifadhi Ardhi Dodoma / Ilobashi Reservoir / Shinyanga
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G148 HAT Record No: H029376)
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6 Rwehumbiza, F. B.; Mahoo, H. F.; Lazaro, E. A. 2000. Effective utilization of rainwater: More water from the same rain. In Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.), Rainwater harvesting for natural resources management: A planning guide for Tanzania. Nairobi, Kenya: SIDA. RELMA. pp.23-35.
Rain ; Water harvesting ; Water use ; Water requirements ; Plant growth ; Evapotranspiration ; Water deficit ; Water stress ; Forests ; Water demand ; Livestock ; Wildlife ; Groundwater ; Recharge ; Drought ; Water supply ; Case studies / Tanzania / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G148 HAT Record No: H029378)
7 Sobiech, P. A. 2002. Healthy partnerships with the urban poor. In World Water Council, New world water 2000: Advancing technology to secure supply and safeguard the environment. London, UK: Sterling Publications. pp.20, 23, 25.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WOR Record No: H030971)
8 Mkwizu, Y. B.; Nkotagu, H. H. 2004. Evaluation of groundwater recharge rates in the Kizinga catchment in Dar es Salaam region. In Stephenson, D.; Shemang, E. M.; Chaoka, T. R. (Eds.), Water resources of arid areas: proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources of Arid and Semi Arid Regions of Africa (WRASRA), Gaborone, Botswana, 3-6 August 2004. Leiden, Netherlands: A. A. Balkema. pp.157-166.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G100 STE Record No: H035536)
9 Drechsel, Pay; Dongus, S. 2010. Dynamics and sustainability of urban agriculture: examples from Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability Science, 5(1):69-78. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-009-0097-x]
Urban agriculture ; Sustainability ; Vegetables ; Wastewater irrigation ; Crop production ; Land use / Africa South of Sahara / Tanzania / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042756)
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Urban agriculture can have many different expressions, varying from backyard gardening to poultry and livestock farming. This article focuses on crop production on larger open spaces in cities of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and investigates the sustainability and dynamics of this type of land use, which is common on undeveloped plots particularly in lowlands, such as in inland valleys, or along urban streams or drains. An adapted version of the Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management (FESLM) developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was used to assess the sustainability of urban agriculture. As an example for dynamics, the spatio-temporal changes of open-space agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, are analyzed for the period from 1992 to 2005, and compared with data from other cities. Crop production on urban open spaces appears as a market-driven, highly productive and profitable phenomenon. However, it is often constrained by tenure insecurity and non-agricultural land demands. Also, the common use of polluted water limits the official support of irrigated urban farming. However, despite these constraints, the phenomenon of urban farming appears persistent and resilient to its changing environment, although individual farmers might have to shift to other sites when their plots are needed for construction. Open-space vegetable production in urban areas is a dynamic, viable and largely sustainable livelihood strategy, especially for poor urban dwellers. Spatio-temporal analysis shows that it is not a short-lived or transitional phenomenon - probably as long as it can maintain its comparative market advantage. However, its informal nature and resulting lack of political recognition need to be addressed.
10 Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). 2010. 11th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27-29 October 2010. IWRM for national and regional integration: where science, policy and practice meet: water for people. Harare, Zimbabwe: Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). 763p.
Wastewater treatment ; Filters ; Water quality ; Monitoring ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Rural areas ; Households ; Drinking water ; Waterborne diseases ; Diarrhoea ; Cholera ; Poverty ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Groundwater ; Climate change ; Water harvesting / Africa / Malawi / Zimbabwe / Uganda / Tanzania / Rwanda / South Africa / Lesotho / Swaziland / Ghana / Nigeria / Gihira Water Treatment Plant / Mutshedzi Water Treatment Plant / Kwazulu-Natal Province / Ugu District / Chegutu District / Mpumalanga Province / Dar es Salaam / Temeke / Lilongwe / Maputo / Accra / Katsina State / Blantyre City / Chilobwe / Chatha
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043409)
http://www.waternetonline.ihe.nl/11thSymposium/WaterSupplyandSanitationFullPapers2010.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043409.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043409.pdf
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11 Inderberg, T. H.; Eriksen, S.; O'Brien, K.; Sygna, L. (Eds.) 2015. Climate change adaptation and development: transforming paradigms and practices. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 295p.
Climate change adaptation ; Sustainable development ; Disaster risk management ; Flood control ; Technology transfer ; Resilience ; Gender ; Women ; Farmers ; Households ; Living standards ; Urban planning ; Rural settlement ; Governance ; Stakeholders ; Policy making ; Political aspects ; Socioeconomic development ; Indigenous knowledge ; Food security ; Agricultural sector ; Charcoal ; Arid zones ; Semiarid zones ; Case studies / Mozambique / Kenya / Tanzania / Ethiopia / Nepal / Lake Victoria Basin / Maputo / Makueni / Dar es Salaam / Afar Region / Humla
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.927 G000 IND Record No: H047643)
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12 Ingelaere, B.; Christiaensen, L.; De Weerdt, J.; Kanbur, R. 2018. Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction - a migrant perspective. World Development, 105:273-282. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.025]
Rural urban migration ; Poverty ; Urbanization ; Towns ; Off farm employment ; Life cycle ; Social aspects ; Living standards ; Economic aspects ; Villages / Africa South of Sahara / Tanzania / Kagera / Dar es Salaam / Bukoba
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048797)
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This paper develops the concept of ‘action space’ as the range of possible destinations a migrant can realistically move to at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. We show how this space expands and contracts over time through "cumulative causation". Such a dynamic framework allows us to appreciate the role of secondary towns in rural-urban migration and poverty reduction. Secondary towns occupy a unique middle ground between semi-subsistence agriculture and the capitalistic city; between what is close-by and familiar and what is much further away and unknown. By opening up the horizons of the (poorer) rural population and facilitating navigation of the non-farm economy, secondary towns allow a broader base of the poor population to become physically, economically and socially mobile. Secondary towns therefore have great potential as vehicles for inclusive growth and poverty reduction in urbanizing developing countries. These are the insights emerging from in-depth life history accounts of 75 purposively selected rural–urban migrants from rural Kagera, in Tanzania.
13 Ashagre, B. B.; Platts, P. J.; Njana, M.; Burgess, N. D.; Balmford, A.; Turner, R. K.; Schaafsma, M. 2018. Integrated modelling for economic valuation of the role of forests and woodlands in drinking water provision to two African cities. Ecosystem Services, 32(Part A):50-61. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.05.004]
Drinking water ; Water supply ; Water demand ; Urban areas ; Forests ; Woodlands ; Economic value ; Water costs ; Water users ; Ecosystem services ; Land use ; Erosion ; Hydrology ; Models ; Reservoirs ; Sediment ; Case studies / Africa / Tanzania / Dar es Salaam / Morogoro / Ruvu River / Mindu Reservoir
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048833)
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Rapidly growing economies often have high population growth, resulting in agricultural expansion in rural areas and increased water demand in urban areas. Conversion of forests and woodlands to agriculture may threaten safe and reliable water supply in cities. This study assesses the regulating functions and economic values of forests and woodlands in meeting the water needs of two major cities in Tanzania and proposes an integrated modelling approach with a scenario-based analysis to estimate costs of water supply avoided by forest conservation. We use the process-based hydrological Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the role of woody habitats in the regulation of hydrological flow and sediment control. We find that the forests and woodlands play a significant role in regulating sediment load in rivers and reducing peak flows, with implications for the water supply from the Ruvu River to Dar es Salaam and Morogoro. A cost-based value assessment under water treatment works conditions up to 2016 suggests that water supply failure due to deforestation would cost Dar es Salaam USD 4.6–17.6 million per year and Morogoro USD 308 thousand per year. Stronger enforcement of forest and woodland protection in Tanzania must balance water policy objectives and food security.
14 Smiley, S. L. 2019. Explaining improvements and continuing challenges in water access in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 35(6):959-976. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2018.1513831]
Water availability ; Water supply ; Water management ; Water quality ; Drinking water ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Millennium Development Goals ; Water authorities ; Water governance ; Water users ; Towns ; Households ; Case studies / Africa South of Sahara / United Republic of Tanzania / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049406)
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The equitable and universal provision of safe and affordable water is one of the Sustainable Development Goals, but progress has been slow, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents a case study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to highlight water access progress at the city scale. Using household surveys and interviews with officials, it explains improvements in hours of water availability and numbers of household water connections, but also discusses the remaining challenges with water cost and customer satisfaction. To achieve the goal of universal access, the city must further increase water production and address concerns with how water quality is monitored.
15 Dakyaga, F.; Ahmed, A.; Sillim, M. L. 2021. Governing ourselves for sustainability: everyday ingenuities in the governance of water infrastructure in the informal settlements of Dar es Salaam. Urban Forum, 32(1):111-129. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-020-09412-6]
Water governance ; Sustainability ; Infrastructure ; Informal settlements ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Water supply ; Public water ; Urban areas ; Water access ; Political aspects ; Households / Africa South of Sahara / United Republic of Tanzania / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050222)
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Everyday ingenuities have gained hegemony in urban governance scholarship in the Global South, especially regarding the informal settlements of sub-Saharan Africa, where public water services are limited. Within the global commitment to sustainability, through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this article explores how non-state actors (water service providers) develop and sustain water infrastructure (provide, manage water systems for continued availability) in the informal settlements, through the lens of the everyday ingenuities and governance for sustainability framework, and a qualitative research approach. The study realized the involvement of individuals and group of actors in water infrastructure governance. The actors self-mobilized resources and develop low-cost water infrastructure systems. The actors engaged in a gamut of actions, transactions, clientelist (broker and clients’ relationships), and interactions (buying and selling of water, networking, production, cooperation, partnerships) to manage water infrastructure, the practices were guided by unwritten rules and regulations, and not independent of state actors’ interactions, but formed and developed through the relations between state and non-state water service providers. The findings suggest that water infrastructures in the informal settlements are developed and sustained through the everyday act of inventing, repetitive self-actions, ordering and disordering of the rules and mechanisms, among the inter-depending actors (producers and resellers of water), and their interactional relationship with the state water utility provider (DAWASA).
16 Thorn, J. P. R.; Aleu, R. B.; Wijesinghe, A.; Mdongwe, M.; Marchant, R. A.; Shackleton, S. 2021. Mainstreaming nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure in peri-urban Sub-Saharan Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 216:104235. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104235]
Climate change ; Resilience ; Periurban areas ; Infrastructure ; Mainstreaming ; Barriers ; Legal aspects ; Land use change ; Financing ; Sociocultural environment ; Ecosystem services ; Risk reduction ; Households ; Settlement / Africa South of Sahara / Namibia / United Republic of Tanzania / Windhoek / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050637)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204621001985/pdfft?md5=3cae6cb42cf68d24299e83f7efa75088&pid=1-s2.0-S0169204621001985-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050637.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050637.pdf
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Despite a growing recognition of the importance of designing, rehabilitating, and maintaining green infrastructure to provide essential ecosystem services and adapt to climate change, many decision makers in sub-Saharan Africa continue to favour engineered solutions and short term economic growth at the expense of natural landscapes and longer term sustainability agendas. Existing green infrastructure is typically maintained in more affluent suburbs, inadvertently perpetuating historic inequalities. This is in part because there remains a lack of fine-grained, comparative evidence on the barriers and enablers to mainstreaming green infrastructure in peri-urban areas. Here, we developed an analytical framework based on a review of 155 studies, screened to include 29 studies in 24 countries. Results suggest eight overarching categories of interconnected barriers to green infrastructure in peri-urban areas. Using a combinatorial mixed method approach, we then surveyed households in nine settlements in drought-prone Windhoek (n=330) and seven settlements in flood-prone Dar es Salaam (n=502) and conducted key informant interviews (n=118). Peri-urban residents in Windhoek and Dar es Salaam indicated 18 forms of green infrastructure and 47 derived ecosystem services. The most frequently reported barriers were financial (40.8%), legal and institutional barriers (35.8%) followed by land use change and spatial trade-offs (33%) and finally ecosystem disservices (30.6%). The most significant barriers in Dar es Salaam were legal and institutional (22.7%) and in Windhoek were land use change and spatial trade-offs (24.4%). At the household level, the principal barrier was financial; at community and municipal levels the main barriers were related to design, performance, and maintenance; while at the national level, the main barriers were legal and institutional. Embracing institutional cultures of adaptive policymaking, equitable partnerships, co-designing futures, integrated landscape management and experimental innovation have potential to scale long term maintenance for urban green infrastructure and foster agency, creativity and more transformative relationships and outcomes.
17 Msaki, G. L.; Njau, K. N.; Treydte, A. C.; Lyimo, T. 2022. Social knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions on wastewater treatment, technologies, and reuse in Tanzania. Water Reuse, 12(2):223-241. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wrd.2022.096]
Wastewater treatment ; Water reuse ; Recycling ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Attitudes ; Health hazards ; Constructed wetlands ; Irrigation ; Water supply ; Economic activities ; Households ; Multivariate analysis / United Republic of Tanzania / Kilimanjaro / Arusha / Iringa / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051259)
https://iwaponline.com/jwrd/article-pdf/12/2/223/1067484/jwrd0120223.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051259.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051259.pdf
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This study assessed the social knowledge, attitude, and perceptions (KAPs) on wastewater treatment, the technologies involved, and its reuse across different wastewater treatment areas in four regions of Tanzania. We used both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods in a household-level questionnaire (n=327) with structured and semi-structured questions, which involved face-to-face interviews and observation. Our results show that social KAPs surrounding wastewater treatment and reuse were sufficient based on KAP scores achieved from asked questions. However, the general knowledge on treatment technologies, processes, and reuse risks was still low. Of the respondents, over 50% approved using treated wastewater in various applications, while the majority (93%) were reluctant if the application involved direct contact with the water. Furthermore, over 90% of interviewees did not know the technologies used to treat wastewater and the potential health risks associated with its use (59%). Multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences (P<0.05) in the KAPs on treated wastewater across different studied demographic variables, i.e., age, sex, and education level. Therefore, we recommend that more effort be spent on providing public education about the potential of wastewater treatment and existing technologies in order to facilitate their adoption for the community's and environment's benefit.
18 Wessels, M. T. 2023. What’s in a name? Politicising wastewater reuse in irrigated agriculture. Water Alternatives, 16(2):563-580.
Wastewater ; Water reuse ; Wastewater irrigation ; Irrigated farming ; Urban agriculture ; Vegetables ; Political ecology ; Water quality ; Water flow ; Interdisciplinary research ; Towns / United Republic of Tanzania / Dar es Salaam / Msimbazi River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052190)
https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue2/713-a16-2-14/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052190.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052190.pdf
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Wastewater is increasingly being reused as a solution to water scarcity in agriculture. This article combines a literature review with an ethnographic study of water reuse in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to explore the field of wastewater reuse and what it is made to represent. The academic literature largely focuses on the practical challenges of wastewater treatment, while underlying political dynamics that contextualise the planning of, and control over, water flows remain largely unaddressed. Because people seek to take control over water through the manipulation of flows and qualities, wastewater reuse is inherently political. The study of water reuse practices in Dar es Salaam shows how water quality decline is co-produced with processes of urbanisation that cause inequalities in the urban waterscape. Farmers are subject to changes in the physical characteristics and normative understandings of the urban water system, yet do not have the power to reconfigure these to their own ends or challenge the way that their practices are portrayed. This paper shows the importance of politicising wastewater reuse and calls for a more diverse and emancipatory understanding of, and response to, water reuse in agriculture through interdisciplinary research and the collaborative production of knowledge and interventions.
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