Traditional Lowlands Water Management inDano, South-Western Burkina Faso
- Journal of Water Resource and Protection , 8 (8) : 425-434
Résumé
Lowland water resources management represents a challenge of the future that calls for action from any community. Irrigated crops are grown in some areas of Burkina Faso, others are limited by a lack of irrigation infrastructure. Due to limited crop irrigation, crops and the associated populations dependent on them depend on rain and on climatic factors. Thus, there is a need to understand and implement traditional mechanisms for managing lowland water in Dano, where climatic and geological conditions provide a sustained source of water. Here, I use a literature review combined with field work and interviews/questionnaires to estimate the potential exploitable plains to 16,056 ha or 24% of the communal area. Management mechanisms and traditional operating systems of lowland waters were clear, which helped to set the technological level of farmers, in partial control of water management.
Mots-clés
Burkina Faso, Dano, South Sudanese Climate, Lowlands, Traditional Management