Water Resource User Associations (WRUAs) were
created under the Water Act of 2002 as an institution
to manage water at local levels. They provide a forum
through which allocation and utilisation of water
resources in a basin or sub-basin can be overseen, and
conflicts over water use can be addressed and
resolved.
They have proved successful at resolving water
resource use and allocation conflicts, and by the end of
2003, nine out of 13 WRUAs had dealt with more than 52
different cases of conflict through arbitration and
negotiation, 85 percent of which were successfully addressed.
With support from WWF, a “Mara River Basin
Water Users Association”, was formed and
registered in August 2003, which has several sub-committees along
theKenyan sub-catchments of the Mara River, and which meets on a
monthly basis (currently on the last Thursday of every month).
In order to help ensure that issues impacting on the MMNR are
discussed, and hopefully resolved through the WRUA, MMNR
management will register with this WRUA, and
participate in the monthly meetings whenever possible and
appropriate.
