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Water security planning (WSP) for sustainable water resources management in West Africa

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posted on 2018-11-02, 13:49 authored by Felix Gbevillah, Lucien Damiba
This briefing paper describes the processes, lessons and challenges in developing a Water Security Plan (WSP) under WaterAid Securing Water Resources Approach (SWRA) initiative. The WSP provides framework for achieving sustainable access to water for multiple use while maintaining healthy and diverse ecosystems for communities in Bongo District by 2022. This plan was developed through participatory stakeholder involvement. The vision of the plan is to achieve sustainable access to water for the multiple use by the people of of Bongo District by 2022. The vision of the plan is informed by an analysis of the current and emerging challenges of water resources management. The analysis unearthed the strength and challenges of water resources management in the district and proposed actions supported by investment plan for securing water resources for multiple use. The plan addresses the challenges of water quality, water infrastructure, and accountability among others.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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Transformation towards sustainable and resilient WASH services: Proceedings of the 41st WEDC International Conference

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GBEVILLAH, F. and DAMIBA, L., 2018. Water security planning (WSP) for sustainable water resources management in West Africa. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Transformation towards sustainable and resilient WASH services: Proceedings of the 41st WEDC International Conference, Nakuru, Kenya, 9-13 July 2018, paper 2972, 6 pp.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2018

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This is a conference paper.

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  • en

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Nakuru, Kenya

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