Effective Groundwater Resource Management for Addis Ababa City
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2015-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
These days’ young and old people are seen carrying plastic container (jerrycans) in the
streets of northern and eastern part of Addis Ababa to collect drinking water. Not only
residents in Addis Ababa are suffering from acute shortage of water, but also civil servants in
some of various state offices are in trouble of getting tap water. The residents of Kechene,
Shiromeda, Piassa, AddisuGebeya, SidistKillo and uptoKotebe in the city are often hardest
hit by the disruption, and get water supply just once a week and sometimes once in two
weeks.
Due to imbalance between demand andavailability, management approaches are facing
various ethical dilemmas. For aneffective, efficient and sustainable groundwater resources
development and management,the planners and decision makers have future challenges to
assess the inextricable logicallinkages between water policies and ethical consideration.
Groundwater being a hiddenresource is often developed without proper understanding of its
occurrence in time and space. Thus groundwater management on scientific lines is the key
for sustainability of this vital resource.
The issue of groundwater management is multidimensional, related to reliable assessment
of available water, its supply and scope for augmentation, distribution, reuse/recycling, its
existing depletion, pollution, and its protection from depletion and degradation. And using
Independent local management Approach with policy adjustment, different regulatory
provisions, demand side measures, and making quality measure and supply management
as the framework of groundwater management found in the result section, groundwater
can effectively managed.
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Groundwater management