Technical Paper: Water Conservation for Agriculture

In this paper in the technical paper series on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in Sudan, Inge Vos focuses on how one of the Aqua4Sudan partnership’s water conservation for agricultural activities contributes to the increased efficiency of water use for irrigation.

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19 December 2022

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Water conservation practices

This paper focuses on how one of Aqua4Sudan’s water conservation for agricultural activities contributes to the increased efficiency of water use for irrigation. Geographically, the intervention was situated in the North Delta Locality in Kassala state, and more specifically in section Mesga-15 of Metateib Block of the spate irrigation system known as the Gash Agricultural Scheme (GAS).

Rural Water for Sudan is a development programme that ran in Sudan from 2015 to 2020. The programme aimed at enhancing the well-being and health of people living in rural areas by improving their access to water, sanitation, livelihoods, and food security. By doing so it aimed to reduce conflicts surrounding water as well.

This programme was funded by UKaid and the European Union and implemented by the Aqua4Sudan partnership. This partnership consisted of International Aid Services, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Practical Action, Plan Sudan, SOS Sahel, World Relief and ZOA. The targeted locations of the programme were the Red Sea, Kassala, Gedaref, North Darfur, South Darfur and West Darfur states.

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