MCC Water Management Activity

Cabo Verde - WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT PROJECT - Water Management Activity: the Water Management and Soil Conservation (the "Water Management Activity"); MCC Funding will be used to increase agricultural productivity by supporting the conversion of farm land from traditional dry land production to higher-value horticultural production, by improving natural resource management, including sustainable use of soil and water resources, and by building capacity to support the development and implementation of community-based watershed management plans.

The Water Management Activity is designed to slow surface runoff through the construction of walls, terrace, dikes and check dams and the capture of water in reservoirs. This will increase the re-charge of water into underground aquifers. The Water Management Activity will improve on-farm water use by promoting the adoption of drip irrigation technology.

Specifically, MCC Funding will be used for the following activities in the Watershed Areas: (i) Technical assistance to national, municipal and local governments to develop community-based watershed management plans, (ii) Construction of physical infrastructure (reservoirs, terraces, dikes, contour walls, check dams, vegetative barriers and other structures) to capture surface water and replenish water tables, (iii) Provision of water to the farm gate, including the construction of a series of dikes, culverts and tubes of diminishing sizes from the reservoirs to the individual plots of land.