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The southern Mudug region of Somalia has been without coherent national government and an international non-governmental organisation (NGO)/UN presence in recent years. Despite this, a functioning water economy can be found, with supply elements based on rainwater harvesting (berkads), shallow wells, motorised deep borehole systems and water tankering. The author argues that this is partly because groundwater has a clear economic value to villages (they can sell it to nomads) and to nomads (without it they will lose the capital that is their livestock), and because there is a revenue collection structure at motorised borehole systems. The ability to understand the economic value of water from the perspective of the user community is a key ingredient in a successful water-supply project in impoverished rural areas. © Springer-Verlag 2007.
Author(s): Banks D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Hydrogeology Journal
Year: 2008
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Pages: 765-777
Print publication date: 01/06/2008
ISSN (print): 14312174
ISSN (electronic): 1435-0157
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-007-0253-2
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-007-0253-2
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