Revista de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental

Water Supply Management and Sustainability in Afgoi District, Somalia

Abstract

Abdullahi Mohamed Sheikh Ali, Abdirahman Mohamed Ahmed, Ali Warsame Hassan Arale and Abdulshakur Abdullahi Di'iso

The civil war in Somalia that erupted in 1990 has destroyed totally the major water resources infrastructures including boreholes. Hence, The main purpose of this research was to analyze sustainability and management of the water supply systems (Tadamun/Hawa tako, Tadamun/ If & Akhiro, Dudublaha, Maskaxey, and Wanjel) managed by water users committee implemented in Afgoi district, Somalia; In addition, this research also studied the water supply systems and its sustainability. This reseach focuses primarily on the assessments carried out in the field, observations, household survey, and water tests; Results shows that all the studied schemes are financially and technically sustainable and able to delivered good quality of water to the users. Though, the water schemes are self-reliant, regularly provide major technical assistance. Hence all of the water supply system seems to be smoothly operating without financial, technical or institution problems with in water supply system and the community. Thus, it can be concluded that five water supply systems are providing quality drinking water to the people.