Costs and benefits of multiple use water services: a case from Ethiopia 5 th WWF, Istanbul March 2009

Introduction RiPPLE is research program funded DFID. It consorium of ODI. IRC, CDS, HCS, WAE ECC-SDCOH is the key development partners in Ethiopia involved in a multiple use water service development among diverse programs.

Background Interventions were focusing to addressing single use of water No adequate consideration to sectoral integration of water with NR, agriculture, livestock, infrastructure, market etc Lack of evidence on the costs and benefit as well as the livelihood impact of the single vs multiple uses Objective: To provide a better insight in the costs and benefits of going up the water service ladder in the developed water schemes in Ethiopia

Methodology Information was gathered from secondary and primary information at service level, household and institutions –Wealth ranking, Community mapping –Household / caretaker record keeping –Focus group discussions, Interviews with key stakeholder –Review of design documents, Review of budgets and expenditure –Household survey –Water measurements and observations –Review of relevant data and documents (e.g. health clinic data) Costs and benefits analysis was undertaken

Multiple use water services Single use water services Domestic water services Irrigation water services Initial situation No formal water services No formal water services Irrigation path Water supply path Ido Jalala Spring with discharge of 0.4 l/s 70 households Ifa Daba Spring with discharge of 1.4 l/s 121 households

Cont… InputOutputImpact Costs related to hard- and software Water services: Water quality, Water quantity, Reliability, Accessibility water use Benefits Costs taken into account Capital investment costs in assets (CapIn), from the implemented and from the community Operating and minor maintenance expenditure (Opex) Support costs (SupCo) Not considered: “Impact costs” Benefits taken into account Health benefits Time saving benefits Irrigation benefits (livestock benefits)

Costs

Costs per capita

Results: benefits

Benefits per capita

B/C ratios Ido JalalaIfa Daba Domestic water supply services Multiple use services Irrigation services Multiple use services B/C Towards water supply servicesTowards MUS Towards irrigation servicesTowards MUS Additional B/C681222

Conclusions Introducing single use water services can have impact on the multiple uses of water Limited water availability at the source means that different water uses might compete with each other Integrated water service delivery for multiple uses is key Multiple use services seem to be more cost effective than single use systems (in case of spring systems) In case of spring systems, the benefits of going from irrigation services to multiple use services, are high compared to the costs

Acknowledgements: RiPPLE MUS research team: Zemede Abebe, Marieke Adank, Belayneh Belete, Samuel Chaka, Adissu Delelenge, Martine Jeths, Jaleta Gebru, Zelalem Lema and Demeksa Tamiru. Thanks you!