Water for cities and rural areas in contexts of climate variability: assessing paths to shared prosperity – the example of Burkina Faso
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15 avril 2016
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Increasing climatic variability (rainfall) Semi-arid lands in a low-income economy Urban-rural water allocation Urbanisation Ziga and Bagré DamsSujets proches
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Peter Newborne, « Water for cities and rural areas in contexts of climate variability: assessing paths to shared prosperity – the example of Burkina Faso », Field Actions Science Reports, ID : 10670/1.1u6uuf
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The water management authorities in Burkina Faso are, at present, succeeding in responding to the ‘bulk’ water demand of the capital city, Ouagadougou – located in the semi-arid central region of Burkina – through a major ‘supply-side’ infrastructure project, the Ziga dam and Ziga-Ouagadougou pipelines. This article questions, however, the long-term viability of the current approach. Ouagadougou’s status as economic and administrative capital gives it great power to plan for and mobilise investment for its own water supplies, at the expense of water for rural development. In the context of climatic changes and forecasts of substantial continued growth of the city’s population, the author argues for development of an urban-rural water strategy with a different allocation model to support a pathway to future prosperity in this semi-arid economy.