Critique of decentralized political structures in water resource management in Tanzania:

The objective of this paper is to examine the level of dependence by stakeholders from wetlands of Pangani river basin and its contribution to economic development. Wetlands are becoming one of the key environmental conflict areas in many parts of Eastern Africa. The major source of conflicts experienced in the wetland communities is a result of water scarcity due to lack of elaborate institutional framework to facilitate the integration of the various sectoral and cross sectoral uses of wetland resources among stakeholders.