Causes, Effects, and Mitigation Measures of Time and Cost Overruns in Water Supply Projects: Case of Tigrai Region, Northern Ethiopia

Table 2

List of effects of time and cost overruns [5, 11, 21, 26–30].

Nos	Effects of cost overrun	Effects of time overrun
1	Delay	Cost overrun
2	Additional cost and budget shortfall	Dispute
3	Dispute	Litigation/goes to court case
4	Litigation/goes to court case	Total abandonment
5	Total abandonment	Termination of contracts
6	Termination of contracts	Funding difficulties
7	Supplementary agreement	Delay in commissioning other related projects
8	Funding difficulties	Develop bad relationship with construction team
9	Delay in commissioning other related projects
10	Develop bad relationships with other organizations