Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Department of Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Assessment of Indigenous Water Management System: A Case Study of Borana Community, Southern Ethiopia
  Author(s): Jatani Bonaya Godana* and Sisay Demeku Derib
  
  Water is the most domineering diet for living things/Bisaan sagalee mootuu/ means of a vital to alive next to air. Then, the management of this most essential resource for living things is very important. Different traditional water technologies and management practices have used in various parts of the world since time immemorial. The practices are actually dependent on the local situations. Some linked with surface water and others with groundwater extraction and management. A typical example, which has used for long and widely known, called Qanat. Qanat is a traditional water extracting and transporting technique that commonly used in Middle East. However, in Borana community this term knows by the expression called “Finna Marraa Bisaanii ‘the rule of water and grass’. The Indigenous water resources management system of the Borana Community .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2165-784X.2021.11.371

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