{"id":273619,"date":"2019-04-20T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiY2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvbmVzdGxlLXdhdGVycy1ldGhpb3BpYS1wdXJzdWUtc3VsdWx0YS13YXRlcnNoZWQtcHJvamVjdNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:08","slug":"nestle-waters-ethiopia-pushed-a-sululta-watershed-management-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273619","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 Waters Ethiopia pushed a Sululta watershed management plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Oromia, Addis Ababa University\u2019s Water and Land Resource Center, and <strong>Nestl\u00e9 Waters Ethiopia<\/strong> launched phase two of an Integrated Landscape Management Project for the upper Sululta watershed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-269801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sululta.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nestl\u00e9 Waters Ethiopia pushed a Sululta watershed management plan\" \/>\n<p>The Reporter Ethiopia said phase one (2016\u20132018) mapped biophysical and socio-economic baselines. Phase two through 2023 was supposed to coordinate organic farming, green recreation space, water and sanitation access, and local income projects, with a price tag near USD 70 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 framed water stewardship around its bottled-water joint venture. Experts warned that Addis Ababa\u2019s urban sprawl was already converting the watershed\u2019s edge into settlement, threatening recharge and community water unless planning matched growth.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as reference, Sululta is an early case of corporate watershed branding meeting Ethiopian urbanization politics. Who sets the rules when a global bottler, a regional state, and a mega-city all claim the same hills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/nestle-waters-ethiopia-pursue-sululta-watershed-project\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestle Waters Ethiopia to pursue Sululta watershed project&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe Oromia Regional State,the Water and Land Resource Center (WLRC) of the Addis Ababa University and Nestle Waters Ethiopia have launched phase two &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":269801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sululta.jpg?fit=916%2C518&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19bd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601043,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273619\/revisions\/601043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}