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Water Footprint and Resource Management in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro Basin, Mount Kenya

Researchers estimated blue and green water availability and consumption for various land uses in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro Basin using water footprint accounting. The study used a pragmatic approach with simple assumptions and available hydrometeorological data to address water scarcity challenges. It was determined that small-scale irrigation consumed the largest portion of blue water, while greenhouse flower production accounted for a relatively small percentage. Evaporative losses from irrigation dams were found to be comparable to greenhouse water consumption. The study also evaluated water productivity and labor opportunities for roses versus maize.

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Email	michael.vanderlaan@up.ac.za
Authors	Author 1 Author first name Michael Author surname van der Laan Email michael.vanderlaan@up.ac.za Author organization University of Pretoria Department Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Is this author a contact person for the dataset? true Author 2 Author first name Sandra Author surname Eckert Email Author organization University of Bern Department Centre for Development and Environment Is this author a contact person for the dataset? Author 3 Author first name Maya Author surname da Silva Email Author organization University of Pretoria Department Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Is this author a contact person for the dataset? Author 4 Author first name John Author surname Annandale Email Author organization University of Pretoria Department Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Is this author a contact person for the dataset?
Contact person	Contact 1 Contact name Michael Email michael.vanderlaan@up.ac.za Contact organization University of Pretoria Department Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Recommended citation	VAN DER LAAN M, ECKERT S, DA SILVA M and ANNANDALE J (2021) A water footprint approach to guide water resource management in data-scarce regions: A case study for the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro Basin, Mount Kenya. Water SA 47 (3) 356-366. https://doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2021.v47.13.11864
Did the author / contact organization collect the data?	true
Name of organization that collected the data	University of Pretoria
Dataset language	English
Publisher	Water Research Commission
Publication date	2021-07-01
Project number	to-be-confirmed
License	Open (Creative commons)
License URL	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords	irrigation, integrated water resource management, basin water balance, water scarcity, roses
Geographic location or bounding box coordinates	[0.63967, 37.66596, 0.63967, 37.66596]
Topic category	Agriculture
Data structure category	Semi-structured (does not fully conform to the tabular format of structured data, but may contain tags or markers identifying properties to arrange it into an organisational framework)
Uploader estimation of extent to which data have been processed	Refined
Is the data time series or static	Both
Data reference date	Data reference date 1 Data reference date (from) 1960-01-01 Data reference date (to) 2010-12-31
Alternate identifier	https://doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2021.v47.13.11864
Vertical extent datum	masl
Vertical minimum-maximum extent	Vertical minimum-maximum extent 1 Minimum vertical extent 800 Maximum vertical extent 5199
I agree to the data management plan and terms and conditions of the WRO	true