I follow your initiative ...

I follow your initiative with interest.

In Kenya, the national water resources management authority is mandated to issue abstraction permits accordingly, yet the majority of old consumers never had permits nor have made attempts to acquire them. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is drilling new boreholes behind neighbourhood walls at times without legal permits, making it a nightmare for authorities to accurately account for groundwater abstraction. Even the metered ones with permits at times make modifications to cheat the system or false report. The only regulatory measure that could help is the set arbitrary level of maximum abstraction of the recharge, in Kenya that is averaged at 10%, which in itself is difficult to monitor when aquifers are not well characterized nor their underbellies well studied..

I have encountered a rural community which abstracts borehole water using mobile money tokens. This to me is a great control since one can monitor point abstraction levels accurately, while misuse is minimized through the financial obligation on the part of the user. Community members end up abstracting only what they require for their households.