Chapter 8
Cumulative Impacts of Climate Change
Variability Around the Goronyo Dam
in the Iullemmeden Basin, Northwest
Nigeria
Martin O. Eduvie and I. Francis Oseke
Abstract This chapter considers studies of the persistent multi-dimensional impact
of climate change variability around the Goronyo Dam and across the Rima River
(Latitude 13° 25’ 56”E) in the Lullemmeden Basin of Sokoto state, North West
Nigeria. With an initial designed storage capacity of 942 million cubic meters, mainly
for water supply and irrigation to Sokoto and Birnin Kebbi states with a total population of over 8.5 million people, recent water level and storage in the dam has
been depleted by almost 90% in the past decade of its installed capacity, the biggest
decrease since the construction of the dam over 30 years ago. The peak of climate
change variability was observed as a consequence of a rainfall shortage and the siltation of the dam in 2017, which together resulted in significant socioeconomic impact
on the beneficiaries of these water infrastructures. This has, in turn, resulted in inadequate water supply to state water agencies that depend on the dam to supply water
for drinking, irrigation and other uses. The water shortage due to this climate change
variability has compelled the dislocation of the socioeconomic life of people, families and livestock, forcing migration of human and animal life, thereby igniting social
tension and poor personal and communal hygiene, resulting in epidemics including
cholera and dysentery. This study proposes immediate remedial solutions, including
the construction of tubewells and effective integrated water management of the entire
water resource in order to improve and mediate these multiple and widely varying
impacts on the settlements of Goronyo infrastructures, including on their dependents
and beneficiaries.
Keywords Climate change · Goronyo dam · Precipitation water resources ·
Conflict and tube wells
M. O. Eduvie (B) · I. F. Oseke
National Water Resources Institute, Kaduna Nigeria, Nigeria
e-mail: martineduvie@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Diop et al. (eds.), Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61225-2_8
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Cumulative Impacts of Climate Change
Variability Around the Goronyo Dam
in the Iullemmeden Basin, Northwest
Nigeria
Martin O. Eduvie and I. Francis Oseke
Abstract This chapter considers studies of the persistent multi-dimensional impact
of climate change variability around the Goronyo Dam and across the Rima River
(Latitude 13° 25’ 56”E) in the Lullemmeden Basin of Sokoto state, North West
Nigeria. With an initial designed storage capacity of 942 million cubic meters, mainly
for water supply and irrigation to Sokoto and Birnin Kebbi states with a total population of over 8.5 million people, recent water level and storage in the dam has
been depleted by almost 90% in the past decade of its installed capacity, the biggest
decrease since the construction of the dam over 30 years ago. The peak of climate
change variability was observed as a consequence of a rainfall shortage and the siltation of the dam in 2017, which together resulted in significant socioeconomic impact
on the beneficiaries of these water infrastructures. This has, in turn, resulted in inadequate water supply to state water agencies that depend on the dam to supply water
for drinking, irrigation and other uses. The water shortage due to this climate change
variability has compelled the dislocation of the socioeconomic life of people, families and livestock, forcing migration of human and animal life, thereby igniting social
tension and poor personal and communal hygiene, resulting in epidemics including
cholera and dysentery. This study proposes immediate remedial solutions, including
the construction of tubewells and effective integrated water management of the entire
water resource in order to improve and mediate these multiple and widely varying
impacts on the settlements of Goronyo infrastructures, including on their dependents
and beneficiaries.
Keywords Climate change · Goronyo dam · Precipitation water resources ·
Conflict and tube wells
M. O. Eduvie (B) · I. F. Oseke
National Water Resources Institute, Kaduna Nigeria, Nigeria
e-mail: martineduvie@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Diop et al. (eds.), Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61225-2_8
171