Abstract
When a bourgeoning population faces water supply scarcity dilemma, stakeholders and interests emerge to offer multivariate water harvesting systems to affected communities. Stakeholder provision of water resources have deployed varied indigenous and exogenous technologies for domestic uses from natural surface to ground water stores. Community technological prowess and stratagems are functions of relief and climatic traits within a socio-political setting and that is why this paper sets out to assess indigenous and exogenous technologies of stakeholder in community water harvesting systems. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected for water sources, water demands, stakeholders, harvesting systems, technologies of extraction and water management through field observations, questionnaires and interviews. Findings revealed that few inhabitants have exogenous water supply technology and greater proportions depend on low technologies which paradoxically proved to be more sustainable than the high technologies. Stakeholder involvement motifs self-pride and politically driven and so the dearth of village water committees accounting for very derisory participation rates in water sourcing and management. The development and rehabilitation of alternative water sources is vital for sustainable water resource management and not just reliance on technological knowhow in Balikumbat.
Highlights
Clean water is undeniably crucial to life and health yet millions of people, the world over, are riddled by acute and structural water shortages and whittle innovative techniques to get hold of this indispensable need
Like many Sub-Saharan countries, has startling experiences that can be likened to the 16th Century trend where rural area cattle, pigs and goats compete for drinking water from the same stream with the ordinary, pregnant and farm battered indigenous woman that have trekked for kilometres just to fetch the little enough water for household use [2]
The population of Balikumbat has benefitted from financial assistance, material contributions and policy frameworks towards achieving a sustainable water supply schemes
Summary
Clean water is undeniably crucial to life and health yet millions of people, the world over, are riddled by acute and structural water shortages and whittle innovative techniques to get hold of this indispensable need. When water is poorly managed it can serve as a limiting factor in poverty alleviation with attendant replications as poor health, low productivity, insecurity and constrained economic development This corroborates the predictions of World Bank’s Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Development that “Many of the wars in this century were about oil, but wars of the century will be over water” (World Water Day, 2007). This is more than a clarion call to sturdily hunt for alternative options of averting water scarcity and in future times to come Such does not exempt this study area crisscrossed by winding streams, cascading hill slopes dissected by fast flowing streams, numerous springs or aquifers into vast wetlands where wells and boreholes unsuccessfully rival to peter out the insufficient but reliable rainfall.
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