OceanExpert ID : 18849
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources
EIWR
(Addis Ababa University, Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources)
P.O. Box: 150461
Akaki Campus
150461 Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Type
Academic
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Telephone
+251 114 341698
Fax
+251 114 349417
Activities
Mission and Goals
EIWR’s mission is to provide outstanding higher education programs, conduct internationally recognized research, and perform high-impact community outreach to address all aspects of sustainable development and the management of water resources in Ethiopia .
To meet this need, we offer an integrated water resources curriculum that provides strong interdisciplinary training to our M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. Our faculty and students conduct pioneering research that effectively address water resources issues at the local, national, regional, and global level. Our faculty and students will actively participate in outreach activities that unite our educational and research missions with national priorities and needs and engage external stakeholders and the private sector.
Who We Are
Almost all major development problems in Ethiopia are water-related: food insecurity, low economic development, recurrent droughts, disastrous floods, poor health conditions, and low energy production. The root cause of these problems is not the lack of adequate water resources, as Ethiopia has an abundance of water, but rather the limited development of this country’s most important resource. This is mainly due to the lack of institutional capacity for managing this precious resource and a shortage of professionals trained in water resource management.
In order to develop and manage these existing water resources in a sustainable manner, expertise and research is needed in water access, water quality, water demand by sector, and the impacts of water resource projects on health and the environment. Sustainable water resources development and management requires new knowledge and applications developed through higher education, research and outreach. Achieving this goal will require new technologies for data collection, a highly trained workforce and institutionalized higher education and research in sustainable water resources which are currently lacking in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa.
