Customer: National Irrigation Board, Kenya

Objective of the assignment: To enhance and extend the existing traditional irrigation systems and practices as well as identify new potential irrigable areas and develop an irrigation master plan suitable for the 150km stretch of the Daua river and floodplain in Mandera County, Kenya.

How we did it: Field visits, questionnaires, interviews, hydro-meteorological analysis, topographic survey, geospatial mapping and hydrological modelling, natural resources baseline and Environmental Impact Assessment, socio-economic analysis. Water balance and availability at different river junctions. Based on this information, three options for irrigation development were presented to the National Irrigation Board and local stakeholders. The stakeholders suggestions were taken into account to develop the ultimate option.

Check out the water situation in Daua river in our online watershed information system