Danot was important locally for its wells, which were used by the nomadic pastoralists with the advent of the dry season.
However, the construction of private birkas (underground concrete water tanks) in adjacent woredas, a development which started in the 1950s and later on dramatically increased after the 1970s, offered a solution to the absence of permanent water, and reduced somewhat the importance of these wells.
While this encouraged birka owners to further diversify traditional animal husbandry beyond camels and small ruminants into water-dependent cattle, this also increased livestock population in an overpopulated region, putting additional pressure on shrinking resource base.
This agreement between the 2 clans made Danot the border between them and that each could construct 16 birkas .
[2] Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 47,236, of whom 26,749 are men and 20,487 women.