通过技术改进，诸如能最有效利用不足降水的“滴灌 ” 、 人工汇集雨水、改良后的储水设备、深井以及农业林学技术，使埃塞俄比亚和苏丹这样的缺水地区至少在一定程度上适应气候变化。
Water-stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as “drip irrigation,” rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro-forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall. Better land-management practices (the re-planting of degraded forests, for example) can recharge underground water aquifers.