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Titre : Challenges of Rain Water Harvesting Practices : in Dodota Woreda, Oromiy A Region

Auteur : Solomon, Azalech

Université de soutenance : Addis Ababa University

Grade : Master of Arts (Water and Development) 2012

Résumé partiel
Water is an essential element in every aspect of human life ; hence no life is possible with out water. MDG and ADLI are closely related with water to achieve the targeted goals. There fo re, these program pressure on water. In arid and semi arid regions where rainfall is not sufficient and also surface and ground water is scarce to sustain domestic water supply and agricultural activities, rain water harvesting becomes the most alternative source of water. Based on the developed conceptual fi’ame work this study explores the challenges of rain water harvesting practices towards its benefits in Dodota woreda Arsi zone, Oromya region. Results are based on data taken from the two sample kebeles. A total of 1 00 (hundred) households were taken. These house holds stratified as users of rain water harvesting, none users and those who stop practicing of rain water harvesting (26 of them users, the rest 74 are non user and those who stopped practicing). The household head was chosen to fill the questionnaire. Both purposive and systematic sampling approaches were conducted to select sample surveyed households, focus group participants and key informants. Purposive was used to select users of rain water harvesting and simple random sampling approach was employed to select non users and those who stopped practicing of rain water harvesting. Simple descriptive statistical tools such as ji’equency, percentage and mean were employed through the program SPSS in order to analyze the quantitative and qualitative data.

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