Climate Variability and Water Resource Degradation in Kenya: Improving Water Resources Development and Management

Hezron Mogaka, Samuel Gichere, Richard Davis and Rafik Hirji

No 7414 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This report attempts to fill that gap for two of the most important water-related issues facing the effects of climate variability and the steady degradation of the nation's water resources. The study reported here concluded that the El Niño-La Niña episode from 1997-2000 cost the country Ksh 290 billion (about 14 percent of GDP during that period). During El Niño-induced floods, this cost primarily arises from destruction of infrastructure such as roads, water supply infrastructure, and pipe networks. The largest costs incurred during the La Niña droughts (1998-2000) were from loss of industrial production and other costs arising from reduced hydropower generation, as well as from crop and livestock losses. These costs are felt throughout Kenyan society.

Keywords: Water; Resources-Water; and; Industry; Water; Supply; and; Sanitation-Town; Water; Supply; and; Sanitation; Environmental; Economics; and; Policies; Water; Supply; and; Sanitation-Water; Supply; and; Sanitation; Governance; and; Institutions; Water; Resources-Water; Conservation; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8213-6517-5
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