Africa water Scarcity Reduction
Union Syndicale des Agriculteurs
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Civil society organization
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Description
The water Issues in Africa
Water scarcity limits access to safe water for drinking and for practising basic hygiene at home, in schools and in health-care facilities. When water is scarce, sewage systems can fail and the threat of contracting diseases like cholera surges. Scarce water also becomes more expensive. and bold action needed for a water-secure Africa.
Initiation of Water Conservation
Our initiative aims to construct and protect dam catchments with good ground cover and maintain a grassed filter strip at the dam inlet. Clean troughs regularly. Establish windbreaks adjacent to dams to reduce evaporation. Construct sediment traps to protect dams during high risk periods. A dam in community will be a structure built across a stream or river to hold water back. These dams can be used to store water, control floods, and generate electricity. Humans as youth will have to learn how to conserve and effectively utilise freshwater by constructing dams in the nation
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Our slogan for water conservation
Never waste even a drop of water. No water, no life. No blue, no green. Hold our grip and stop that drip.
Objectives:
Water conservation objectives need to protect natural water bodies and their aquatic environments. These objectives relate to the volume and quality of water to remain in rivers for the protection of a natural water body and its aquatic environment to increase aquatic animals production and food production through irrigation. During the wet season, saving rainwater can help top up our water supply for plants, cleaning, and flushing the toilet.
Implementation methodologies
The ways to save water and prevent water scarcity in Africa (Togo):
-Sustainable water management. Improving water infrastructure must be a priority, as water conservation and efficiency are key components of sustainable water management
-Reclaimed water
-Pollution control & better sewage treatment
-Awareness & Education.
We need to follow the sustainable lifestyle of our ancestors and practice the '4Rs' of water conservation -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Replenish
Follow-up mechanisms
Despite the importance of internal follow-up of completed projects to ensure sustainability of water and sanitation initiatives, it is usually a neglected component in the planning process. Follow-up will be part of the monitoring and evaluation phase, which is carried out together with the stakeholders and end-beneficiaries, but it will be an ultimate responsibility of the implementing agency or organisation (e.g. project team and communities' teams). Here, we will find key information on how to supervise implemented projects in a simple and effective way, how to take advantages of the lessons learned from past experiences for the design of spin-off projects.
i) Overexploitation of underground water results in the lowering of water table. ii) The loss of vegetation causes drought and reduction of rainfall. iii) Irrigation utilises more than 90% of the total fresh water.
Governance
Improving governance can help with water conservation in a number of ways: Improved access to information allows consumers and water managers to make more effective decisions. Participation by stakeholders and users increases buy-in to water conservation initiatives.
The initiative had a positive impact which resulted into overall holistic development of the villages and communities. The villagers expressed their heartfelt gratitude to NERCRMS and to the for their assistance and support.
Action accelerate SDG implementation in water conservation
-The importance of education and awareness-raising.
-Communicate better and translate 'UN speak' into everyday language
-Collaborate and exchange best practices
-Link programs to the SDGs.
-Link the SDGs to each other.
-Transcend innovation bubbles
Expected impact
It is found that three variables; runoff coefficient, roof catchment area and number of sources of water were significant on water conservation independently
Managers and other stakeholders including donors knew the extent to which their projects are meeting their objectives and leading to their desired effects
Follow-up built greater transparency and accountability in terms of use of project resources;
Internal follow-up alerted managers to actual and potential project weaknesses, problems and shortcomings before it is too late;
Future planning and programme development is improved when guided by lessons learned from experience;
Successful implemented project served as reference for future applications for funds;
Saved money on our power bills by using less energy to heat and pump water. Delay or prevent expansion of costly water and wastewater treatment plants in each our community which saved money on taxes. Reduced water shortage frequency and impacts.
Benefits Of large dams constructed on rivers
-Enough water for drinking and industrial uses
-Increasing irrigation to boost food production
-Flood control to avoid economy lost.
-Hydro power generation
-Inland navigation
-Recreation .
In overall, it avoided that the implemented projects are forgotten with the time;
Partners:
The government of Togo
-Ministre de l’Environnement et des Ressources Forestières
-Ministre de l’Eau et de l’Hydraulique Villageoise
-Ministre de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage et du Développement Rural
Beneficiaries:
The general Public
We are working with farmers to implement even bigger and better solutions by building water-conserving ‘boulis’. Boulis are deep and large pits, roughly 30m wide and 3m deep, that catch water that falls in the rainy season. By assessing exactly where the rainfall water is collecting and understanding its natural flow, we can choose the perfect site to build these boulis.
https://www.treeaid.org/blogs-updates/water/
Traditional Water Conservation Practices in Rural Areas of Tem Land, Togo: Lessons for the Future
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09663-1_3
Water security is broadly referred to as a condition where there is a sufficient quantity of water meeting quality standards at an affordable price, for sustaining both the short-term and long-term livelihoods, human well-being, socio-economic development, and ecosystem services [1].
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/2/231
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.1 | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
| 14.2 | By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans |
| 14.a | Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries |
| 14.c | Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want" |
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Poor water quality affects various aspects of society, from the spread of disease to crop growth to infant mortality. In some rural communities, lack of sanitation infrastructure, water treatment facilities, or sanitary latrines lead to dire clean water crises:
-Poor rural communities,
-Poor urban communities
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