The Water Paradox in Africa in a Changing Environment

  Water innovation for Africa We’re coming to an end to my blog! We’ve explored the water paradox in Africa, in the form of understanding water scarcity, water stress and the reasoning behind why there is such an imbalance on the water distribution. Looking back, using the study case of Nigeria and Madagascar helped me get a better grasp of the internal and external challenges that are faced in order to improve water management. It is clear that the subject of environmental change is not enough to fully understand how to tackle the hydrological cycle in Africa, and can be extended to subjects such as governance, agriculture, economic development and many more. Furthermore, the final objective of discussing this subject involves being able to find sustainable solutions that would provide clean, affordable water. I believe this can be done with the adequate infrastructure, funds, and accurate mitigation strategies that is conform to what a physical environment truly needs. Hopeful...

As previously mentioned in my previous blog posts, it is clear that the ‘ water cycle is broken ,’ and its consequences are worsened by land degradation from human practices and environmental change. It is important to note that the long-term environmental change and land transformation worldwide is a by-product of centuries of resource exploitation, intensive agricultural practices, infrastructure development. ( Marchant et al. 2018 ) Furthermore, the expected temperature change from global warming presents the urgency of innovating effective water facilities, as it is estimated that 0.5-3.1 billion more people will be exposed to water scarcity . Satisfying this increasing demand for water also goes beyond addressing environmental change, such as the political impacts seen in the past and the ones to come. Given that more than 80 bodies of water in Africa are shared between two or more countries , observable on Figure 1, it has been seen and is still expected that there will be intern...

Migration of Nigerian population through intense floodings In this post I will discuss my updated insight on the floodings in Nigeria and how the situation evolved. The updated report explained that between September and October, around 2.4 million were displaced from their homes around the 36 states, where water collection facilities were unable to sustain the intense precipitation following the release of water in the Lagdo dam by the Cameroonian government. Furthermore, it has been expressed by local authorities that the Nigerian government had done insufficient efforts in dredging bodies of water around populated cities, causing the spread of the floods to worsen. This stresses out the importance rethinking ‘ecological fund’ as a priority rather than an intention, where you would need to efficiently develop adapted urban planning based on each individual towns, and provide rapid support following early warnings of floodings to reduce the consequences on human lives, households an...