Abstract
Even if much of the earth is covered by mater, the world population was suffered by water scarcity. Its severity also increased from time to time. This problem is affect the present generation to meet their needs and wants and compromises the next generation to sustain economic development and political stability. The study was carried out in Debre tabor town in south Gondar zone of Amhara region, Ethiopia, to assess water scarcity and its impact on daily activity and economic development of the local communities. For this study two Kebele (Kebele 01&02) were selected. The total household of the two Kebele have 14902 households. From these total populations 99 were selected as respondents by using simple random sampling technique. Primary data were used and collected through interview and questioners and secondary data also collected from published and unpublished material like book, article, senior essay and web site. The information’s which were obtained from different source were analyzed through table, graph and charts with some interpretation. Based on the result of the study, the main cause of water scarcity is limited number of reservoir and catchment, topography, high population growth, limited capital, and unskilled man power. Finally based on the result of the data the following recommendations were made; people should use family planning, and participate in water facility construction and rehabilitation. Whereas the government should create awareness for the communities regarding with water scarcity, cause consequence, proper utilization of water, must allocate more fund for water resource development, and should distribute water fairly.
Highlights
General Objective The general objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of water scarcity in Debre tabor town
A researcher was need to assure that all the number of households who live in Debre tabor town were include in the list and they were randomly selected
As we gathered information from respondents and concerned bodies water scarcity in Debre Tabor town can followed many negative impacts including on health daily activities and economic development of the peoples
Summary
The blue colour shows the vast amount of water found on earth but this apparent abundant is a mirage. To amplify the limitation of fresh water only about half of it is available for use by the everincreasing population of the world that is approaching 6 million. The wellbeing and the development of our societies are dependent on the availability of water. This most precious resource is sometimes scared sometimes abundant and it always unevenly distributed, in space and time. Ethiopia’s economic slumps are largely self-inflicted resulting from the countries wars against Eritrea and Somalia. These land locked low income nation with 1,127,127 square kilometres has a population estimated at 73,000,000 people. Making it the biggest and the most populated country in the horn of Africa in comparison with its neighbourhood countries, Ethiopia is vulnerable to draught, while it sites at the centre of the Nile river which support the level hoods of 160,000,000 people in the eastern and horn of Africa, very little cooperation on the regions many trans boundary water issues exists [28]
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