**12. Water resources use implications in the Athi River basin**

This paper has attempted to broadly analyze the available water resources within the Athi River catchment Area (ACA) highlighting the problems associated with water resources use and demands against availability, potential water uses and proposed projects in the basin, strategies to address the scarcity of water in the basin, water pollution trends and their implications on water resources in the basin. An attempt to assess the hydrology of the basin was also performed to give an overview of the present and the projected water use demands and use trends in the catchment area. Evidence of the declining trends in water availability against the various uses was demonstrated in the paper. The results presented in this paper

emphasize that improved water supply systems and the expansion of the existing water sources will reduce the pressure on the existing water resources from various water users in the basin. Overall, this is likely to improve and augment the available water and reduce conflicts and further improve on people's livelihoods.
