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1 Yanda, P. Z.; Mohamed, S. A. 1990. The environmental impact of irrigation schemes: The case of Mto Wa Mbu - A reconnaissance survey. Unpublished survey report, Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar Es Salaam. v, 28p. (Research paper no.24)
Environmental effects ; Irrigation programs ; Case studies ; Land use ; Conflict ; Geology ; Soils ; Climate ; Water resources ; Waterborne diseases / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4204 Record No: H018242)
2 van Koppen, Barbara; Sokile, C. S.; Hatibu, N.; Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H.; Yanda, P.Z.. 2004. Formal water rights in rural Tanzania: deepening the dichotomy? Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vii, 26p. (IWMI Working Paper 071) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.258]
Water rights ; Water law ; Water scarcity ; Water use ; Water user associations ; Irrigation water ; Cost recovery / Tanzania / Upper Ruaha Catchment
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G148 VAN Record No: H035857)
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In the past decade the Tanzanian government, with a loan from the World Bank, designed and implemented a new administrative water rights system with the aim of improving basin-level water management and cost-recovery for government water-resource management services. This paper evaluates the processes and impacts after the first years of implementing the new system in the Upper Ruaha catchment. In this area, the majority of water users are small-scale irrigators and livestock keepers who develop and manage water according to customary arrangements, without much state support. Although water resources are abundant, growing water demands intensify water scarcity during the dry season. Contrary to expectations, the new system has failed as a registration tool, a taxation tool, and a water management tool, and has also contributed to aggravating rural poverty. As a taxation tool, the system not only introduces corruption by design, but also drains government coffers because the collection costs are higher than any revenue gained. As a water management tool, the new system aggravates upstream-downstream conflicts, because the upstream water users claim that paying for water entitles them to use it as they like. However, unlike these and other counterproductive impacts of the new system, the taxation of the few private large-scale water users according to negotiated rates appeared to be feasible. The paper argues that the root of these paradoxical results lies in the dichotomy between the 'modern' large-scale rural and urban economy with its corresponding legislation and the rural spheres in which Tanzania's majority of small-scale water users live under customary water tenure. While the new water rights system fits the relatively better-off minority to some extent, it is an anomaly for Tanzania's majority of poor water users. This paper concludes by suggesting easy adaptations in the current water rights system that would accommodate both groups water users, improve cost-recovery for government services, mitigate water conflicts and alleviate rural poverty.
3 van Koppen, Barbara; Sokile, C. S.; Lankford, B. A.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Yanda, P. Z.. 2007. Water rights and water fees in rural Tanzania. In Molle, Francois; Berkoff, J. (Eds.). Irrigation water pricing: the gap between theory and practice. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.143-164. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 4)
Water rights ; Water costs ; Pricing ; Price policy ; Cost recovery ; User charges ; Legislation ; Water user associations ; Water allocation / Tanzania / Upper Ruaha Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G000 MOL Record No: H040605)
4 Wandiga, S. O.; Opondo, M.; Olago, D.; Githeko, A.; Githui, F.; Marshall, M.; Downs, T.; Opere, A.; Yanda, P. Z.; Kangalawe, R.; Kabumbuli, R.; Kirumira, E.; Kathuri, J.; Apindi, E.; Olaka, L.; Ogallo, L.; Mugambi, P.; Sigalla, R.; Nanyunja, R.; Baguma, T.; Achola, P. 2008. Vulnerability to climate-incuced highland malaria in East Africa. In Leary, N.; Conde, C.; Kulkarni, J.; Nyong, A.; Pulhin, J. (Eds.). Climate change and vulnerability. London, UK: Earthscan. pp.375-397.
Malaria ; Epidemics ; Forecasting ; Climate ; Vectorborne diseases ; Waterborne diseases / East Africa / Kenya / Uganda / Tanzania / Lake Victoria Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G000 LEA Record No: H040834)
5 Yanda, P. Z.; Majule, A. E.; Mwakaje, A. G. 2005. Wetland utilization, poverty alleviation and environmental conservation in semi-arid areas of Tanzania: the case of Singida 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 four: water governance and institutions. Morogoro, Tanzania: Soil-Water Management Research Group, Sokoine University of Agriculture. pp.209-222.
Wetlands ; Environmental protection ; Participatory Rural Appraisal ; Fish ; Livestock ; Crop production ; Poverty / Tanzania / Singida Region / Manyoni District / Kilimatinde Division / Bahi wetlands
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: CD Col Record No: H041161)
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