Presentation - Seventh Roundtable on Financing Agricultural Water - Walid Saleh, PhD, Chief Technical Advisor and Head of office – Aden, U.N. FAO, Republic of Yemen

1. Sana’aBasinProject
Decentralized Integrated Water Resource
Management System in Sana’a Basin
Case Study

2. Case Study Highlights
• Sana’a Basin Groundwater table draw down by 7 m
annually
• Many Experts Predict that Sana’a City will be the first
World Capital that Runs out of Water
• Sana’a Basin Attracted significant investment yet did not
make a difference
• Agriculture in Sana’a Basin suffers from low water
efficiency, low productivity & poor quality, water conflict,
poor community organizations, no modern irrigation
technologies, No women involvement, and venerable to
climate change
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Projects implementation considered HDP nexus (the project was designed during the
peace time as a development project, however, the implementation was during war
time).
The project focused on :
 Irrigation Modernization,
 Water demand management,
 30% reduction in water consumption through 10 Years IWRM plans.
 Decentralization water management through WUAs,
 (Protected Agriculture, Solar Water Pumps, Water Conflict Resolution, Wastewater
Reuse, Water Infrastructure Rehabilitation, Drought Tolerant Plants, Coffee for Qat,
Adoption of WaPor: Remote Sensing to Monitor Water Productivity, Women & Youth
Involvement)
Case Study Highlights

4. SDGs
Contributions
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5. SDG Description Contributed
- indicator SDG2.3.1
- indicator SDG2.3.2
- indicator SDG 2.4.1
- increase the volume of production about 46 %
- increase the average income of farmers about 25 %
- increase agricultural area under productive and
sustainable agriculture by 2078 ha
- indicator SDG 5.5.2 - through 30% participating on Water Users Association
(WUAs’) board of directors which empowering women in
managerial positions.
- indicator SDG 6.3.1
- indicator SDG 6.4.1
- indicator SDG 6.4.2
- Indicator SDG 6.5.1
- through construction of 4 pilot wastewater treatment
plants
- increase Irrigation Water Use efficiency about 25 %
- decrease water consumption stress about 19 %.
- increase the Degree of integrated water resources
management implementation 10 years strategic plans
were developed.
- indicator SDG 16.1.2 - through resolving peacefully 30 water related conflicts
and promoting community peace which decrees Conflict-
related deaths.
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6. ThankYou