Water Demand Analysis: Drivers and Current status of Domestic and Agricultural Water Use in Lower Akagera.
(2024) In TVVR 4000 VVRL01 20232Division of Water Resources Engineering
- Abstract
- The drought prone Eastern Province of Rwanda has experienced rapid growth in agriculture and population over the past decade. This thesis used the Lower Akagera catchment as a case study to determine the current and historical water demand for domestic and agricultural sectors and identify the factors driving these changes. Based on collected field data, a water use model was trained to estimate domestic water use, extrapolated for the entire catchment using national statistics. The irrigation demand was estimated using a combination of national statistics and the Cropwat 8.0 software.
This thesis found that the population in Lower Akagera has been increasing by 4.2 % annually for the last ten years. In addition, per capita water use has... (More) - The drought prone Eastern Province of Rwanda has experienced rapid growth in agriculture and population over the past decade. This thesis used the Lower Akagera catchment as a case study to determine the current and historical water demand for domestic and agricultural sectors and identify the factors driving these changes. Based on collected field data, a water use model was trained to estimate domestic water use, extrapolated for the entire catchment using national statistics. The irrigation demand was estimated using a combination of national statistics and the Cropwat 8.0 software.
This thesis found that the population in Lower Akagera has been increasing by 4.2 % annually for the last ten years. In addition, per capita water use has increased due to changes in household sizes, distances, and water sources. Water availability was identified as the main factor limiting households water use. In the agricultural sector, the total cropland in Lower Akagera has increased by 32 %, and the areas allocated for irrigation have increased by around 9,000 hectares. The main risks for the domestic and agriculture sectors are water availability-related factors, where the demand on the already strained system will continue to grow. (Less)
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- author
- Kellgren, Gustav LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- VVRL01 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Water demand, Drivers, Rwanda, MLR-model, Cropwat, Catchment
- publication/series
- TVVR 4000
- report number
- TVVR24/4001
- ISSN
- 1101-9824
- language
- English
- additional info
- Examiner: Kenneth M. Persson
- id
- 9150024
- date added to LUP
- 2024-08-22 08:51:11
- date last changed
- 2024-08-22 08:51:11
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