Gully development due to incorrect design of culvert resulting in loss of land and lower groundwater table. Also the road lifetime is reduced due to erosion of road subgrade

and embankment. (Gojam Amhara region, Ethiopia)

Road side gullies running parallel to road due to runoff (Gojam Amhararegion, Ethiopia)

A borrow pit (250m long, 80m wide and 15m seep) used as water storage in Axum area, Ethiopia.

Spring along a road cut which is used for drinking and livestock in Megulatarea, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia.

When the water table is raised at upstream of the road due to road construction, a pond was excavated and now used for livestock and irrigation. (Wukro Sheraro Tigray

region, Ethiopia)

View of percolation ponds designed to collect water from roads mainly from culverts in Zata area, Southern Tigray, Ethiopia. Design and construction was made by

MERET, Tigray Bureau of Water Resources, in 2013.

Hand-dug wells used for small-scale irrigation along the

Abreha Wetsbeha-hawzienroad, Ethiopia.

Hand-dug well for small-scale irrigation along the Abreha

Westbeha-Hawzienroad, Ethiopia.

Shallow well (for water supply) at the road side of the Abreha Wetsbeha-Hawzienroad, Ethiopia. Well was developed after the road construction but there is a plan to

upgrade the road to an asphalt.

A road passing close to an existing hand-dug well which is used for small-scale irrigation along the Freweign-Hawzien road, Ethiopia.

Hand-dug well which is under construction in Freweign (Sinkata) area, Ethiopia.

A 3 m deep surface reservoir (Horeye) filled with flood water from road sides at the Freweign-Hawzien road, Ethiopia.

Ponding of water at the road side of the Freweign-Hawzien road, Ethiopia.

Representative of the communities affected by the flood explaining the issue at Freweign-Hawzien road, Ethiopia.

Ponding of water at the road side and endangered dwelling houses from floods from culverts. The consultant of the road plans to channel the flow from culverts down up

to 1 km from the road, Ethiopia.

View of the plains at Freweign area which the road under construction passes through. The communities at down side of the road are endangered by the flood from

culverts, Ethiopia.

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