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Stephen Ngigi is a Regional Water Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project. He’s based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Koraro: Innovative projects for a better use of precious water

Surrounded by an arid landscape and set on eroded soil, the Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia, and its 55,000 inhabitants face an enormous challenge: how to maximize water use, especially for agriculture and smallholder irrigation. Before the project started in 2005, water availability for domestic use and irrigation was a major obstacle to development, in spite of two rivers running . . . [more]

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