This document discusses challenges related to water resource management in Kenya, including deforestation, soil erosion, water scarcity, pollution, and conflicts over water usage. It notes issues such as the lack of water during dry seasons, encroachment into wetlands, inappropriate water utilization, and poor management of springs. The goal of integrated water resource management (IWRM) planning is outlined as changing lives by addressing priority water problems through a basin planning approach that takes all water-related activities and developments into account to achieve sustainable use. Opportunities for IWRM include managing watershed resources like agriculture land, wetlands, and forests.

1. Painting the water Picture:
Looking beyond the obvious
Media in Water & Environment
Wangai Ndirangu

2. INTERPRETATION APPLICATION
OBSERVATION
What does it mean? How do I respond?
What do you see?
THE GOAL
Changed lives
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(IWRM) Planning

3. Challenges of water resources management and Catchment
Cutting Indigenous trees and
soil erosion
Lack of water during
dry season
Encroachment into wetlands
Water
utilisation
Inappropriate Utilisation Illegal abstractions and water Poor Management
S. M Onywereof Springs pollution
Integrated Water Resources Management
(IWRM) Planning

4. Piped abstraction
Furrow Abstraction
Conflict over water
Water scarcity Steep Slope cultivation
THE CHALLENGES
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Chemical application (IWRM) Planning
Road side erosion

5. What are the issues…
Economy vs Water Availability
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6. Lake Olbollosat

7. Unregulated
abstraction
Marsabit lodge crater
lake

8. Discharge Bakuli
Discharge Bakuli springs 2007-2011
springs 1995-2011

9. ……poor infrastructure yes, but
Water and Health weak regulation too!

10. Garbage
problem

11. storm water cross drainage
(culvert) after 4.5km along
8-lane road

12. Components of Inductive WRM
INTERPRETATION APPLICATION
OBSERVATION
What does it mean? How do we respond?
What do you see?
THE GOAL
Changed lives
S. M Onywere Integrated Water Resources Management
(IWRM) Planning

13. Deforestation -Human
Survival

16. Land degradation and floods

17. Water abstraction from open furrow - potential Conflict

18. Land use impacts

19. Encroachment of river riparian areas

20. Weed infestation of water bodies is
driven by nutrient enrichment

21. Nairobi Dam

22. Dumping of solid waste and Effluent
discharge
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23. Components of Inductive WRM
INTERPRETATION APPLICATION
OBSERVATION
What does it mean? How do I respond?
What do you see?
THE GOAL
Changed lives
S. M Onywere Integrated Water Resources Management
(IWRM) Planning

24. IWRM and basin planning?
 To address priority water resources problems in
the basin
 Account for all activities and developments
requiring water or influencing the water
resources
 Achieve most beneficial and sustainable water
use in the basin

25. Resource What are watershed resources ? Use
Anything associated with water that is used
to improve the living conditions of humans
Agriculture Land
Crop
= production
Wetlands Water supply
=
Catchment
Forest for rivers,
= wood supply
S. M Onywere Integrated Water Resources Management
(IWRM) Planning

26. Opportunities
?
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27. Kenya
11-Jun-2010 27

28. Nairobi Rivers Basin
Rehabilitation And
Restoration
Programme
River Widening and Deepening