What is it about?
Water institution is the fundamental aspect of achieving water security. It includes water laws, water policy, and administration. This aspect is overwhelmingly topdown. Pertinent actors were not involved in the policy-making process. Customary water institutions were undermined. As a result, the administrative procedure failed to implement policies and laws. Water institutions were more of rhetoric than action. Thus, enforcing formal/informal water institutions can minimize water insecurity in the basin.
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Why is it important?
Our finding revealed decreeing laws, making policies, and devising administrative machinery alone is not sufficient to achieve water security. It rather needs enforcement of legal aspects and inclusiveness of pertinent actors.
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This article has excited us because it gave me an opportunity to meet policymakers, various water experts, and the local community. We believe that wider readers including academia, policymakers, and practitioners who are interested in the water sector in general and water policy in developing countries in particular could use the article.
Reta Hailu
Hawassa University
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This page is a summary of: Water institutions in the Awash basin of Ethiopia: the discrepancies between rhetoric and realities, International Journal of River Basin Management, October 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2017.1387126.
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