Eastern Nile Irrigation and Drainage Studies:Pilot Studies on IWUEP (Improving Water Use Efficiency & Productivity)

One of the opportunities identified by the CRA Study for addressing the existing crucial water scarcity in the EN sub-basin is improving the water use efficiency and productivity on the existing irrigation schemes. In line with this, pilot studies on selected existing irrigation projects in Ethiopia and Sudan were conducted. Covered by these studies are three small-scale irrigation schemes in three regions of Ethiopia and theRahad irrigation scheme in Sudan. Such type of studies can greatly help in alleviating the existing crucial water shortage in the EN sub-basin and to adopt the adverse effects of climate change.