Proposal For Water Accounts- Tanzania

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Proposal For Water Accounts- Tanzania

• by Grace Z. Nsanya
• Principal Hydrogeologist,
• Ministry of Water and Livestock Development
  ,Tanzania

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Background

• Water is the most important resource that we have
  for all socio-economic sectors and all economic
  development activities.
•     human health,
•      agriculture,
•      industries,
•      forestry,
•     coastal resources,
•    wildlife and livestock. All depend on water
  resources for their sustenance
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• Tanzania government recognizes that water is an
  important component in the development of the
  country. This is proclaimed in the various
  policies including
• Vision 2025, the Poverty Reduction Strategy,
• Agricultural Policy,
• Environmental Policy,
• Forestry Policy,
• Energy Policy, etc

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Importance of Water To National Economy

• The Tanzania poverty reduction strategy paper
  recognises the heavy dependence of the people on
  the environment (soil, water and forest)

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Importance of Water To The Livelihood of People

• About 80 of the population is rural based and
  dependent upon subsistence livelihoods farming,
  herding (18 of GDP),
• fishing(2.7 of GDP) and forestry (2-3 of GDP
  and 10 of exports)
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• The performance of key sectors of the economy
  which include
• agriculture (contributing 50 of the GDP),
• manufacturing (8.4 of GDP),
• energy, mining (2.3 of GDP),
• wildlife and tourism (2 of GDP.

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Management of Water Resources

• Tanzania is divided into nine River Basins. (as
  shown in the map
• I. Pangani Basin
• II Wami and Ruvu Basin
• III Rufiji Basin
• IV Ruvuma and S. CoastalBasin
• V Lake Nyasa Basin
• VI Internal Drainage Basin
• VII Lake Rukwa Basin
• VIII Lake Tanganyika Basin
• IX Lake Victoria Basin

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Map of River Basins
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• An effective water resources assessment is based
  on good physical and socio-economic data. Hence
  availability of data is a basic tool for water
  resources management.

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• Water resources data are missing or are
  inadequate for most of the 9 river basins due to
  in adequate resources.

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• Inadequate data has made resources assessment
  and planning difficult and has resulted in
• overuse or under-use of resources
• under-designing or over-designing of projects.

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• Tanzania is faced with various water resources
  management problems and challenges such as
• water use conflicts,
• Population Growth and rise in demand for water
• Unequal distribution of water resources etc,

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The National Water Policy

• In July 2002, the Government published a revised
  National Water Policy (NAWAPO), which sets out
  the future direction for the water sector in
  achieving sustainable development and utilisation
  of the Nations water resources and the increase
  in the availability of water supply and
  sanitation services.  

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Water Resources Planning

• The policy emphasizes Integrated water resource
  planning based on River Basins as planning unit.
  Also a mechanism for inter-sectoral planning at
  Basin level has been formulated.
• Participatory approaches at all levels of
  planning is promoted in the new water Policy .

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• Water resource accounts of both surface water and
  groundwater, quantitatively and qualitatively, is
  a fundamental element of the water resources
  planning process. However, these accounts are
  weak or non-existent for most the basins.

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Importance of Water Accounts

•      Tool for water resources planning ( it shows
  who is using water, how much water is used, the
  socio-economic value of water use by each
  sector).
•    Tool for water allocations at river basin
  level even if it is not for economic reasons.
•      at national level it is useful for
  evaluation and prioritisation of water
  infrastructure investments, by showing demands
  and the socio-economic benefits.

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•      A strategic planning and decision support
  tool at both river basin and national level,
  (projection of future demand , shortages ,
  indication of users who are capable of paying for
  water services and who can not.

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Research Objectives

• The objective of water resources accounts is to
  have appropriate and sustainable data for
  management and preparation of water use plans.
• Data  to be used for decision making ,giving
  water its real economic value.            

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Tables for Physical water accounts 

• To Construct water accounts for two river basins
  Pangani and Wami /Ruvu the following tables
  shall be used
• 1. rainfall and runoff for Pangani and Wami/Ruvu
  basins,
• 2. Water Balance for Pangani basin
• 3. Total water use within the Pangani Basin by
  major end users.
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• 4.Total water use within the Pangani basin by the
  major end users but disaggregated by 4 regions
  within the basin.
• 5. Total water use within the Pangani basin by 4
  regions and more detailed list of end users
  disaggregated depending on data availability.

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  Approach and Analytical Methods to Be Applied

• The accounts will be constructed by filling in
  the following tables tables 1-5 as shown
  bellow.

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Approaches for Data Collection

• Water use data from upper catchment, middle and
  lower catchment
• Collect water availability data and their
  sourcesdata from water user associations, urban
  water authorities
• Data from private water suppliers (Kili water,
  Uroki Boma Ngombe Uchira water supplier) 

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• Small towns (Same, Korogwe, Lushoto, Kibaha,
  Bagamoyo,), groundwater users TPC, urban water
  authorities
• large industrial users,breweries, soft drinks,
  water bottling companies, textile factories etc
• private wells operators,
• vendors

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Workplan and duration

• inventory of available data and information,
  preparation for field work (1-1.5 months
• Information from basin offices and UWSAs
  (o.5months)
• Field work to small towns water authorities-
  water use Domestic , Same, Korogwe (small
  town),etc (0.5 month

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• Visits to district planning offices- Water use
  plans for various uses, available resources,
  demand for various sectors( 0.5 months) Visits
  to other Sectors (Irrigation, Energy and
  Minerals, Industries, Natural resources water for
  wildlife, tourism ) (0.5 months)  VI.      Data
  compilation and analysis ( 9 months) VII
  . Reports (2.5 months)

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Schedule of activities
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Workplan
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Output

• 1.      Water accounts data in excel files.
• 2.      Reports presenting and discussing the
  accounts.
•     progress reports after every three months.
•   draft report shall be submitted to NRAESA
  programme before the stakeholder workshop.
•    final report shall be submitted at the end
  after incorporating the comments of stakeholders.

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