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Managing Basin Interdependencies in a Heterogeneous, Highly Utilized and Data Scarce River Basin in Semi-Arid Africa - The Case of the Pangani River Basin, Eastern Africa (Paperback)
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Managing Basin Interdependencies in a Heterogeneous, Highly Utilized and Data Scarce River Basin in Semi-Arid Africa - The Case of the Pangani River Basin, Eastern Africa (Paperback)
Series: IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
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For integrated water resources management both blue and green water
resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal
distribution have to be considered. This is because green and blue
water uses are interdependent. In sub-Saharan Africa, the upper
landscapes are often dominated by rainfed and supplementary
irrigated agriculture that rely on green water resources.
Downstream, most blue water uses are confined to the river
channels, mainly for hydropower and the environment. Over time and
due to population growth and increased demands for food and energy,
water use of both green and blue water has increased. This book
provides a quantitative assessment of green-blue water use and
their interactions. The book makes a novel contribution by
developing a hydrological model that can quantify not only green
but also blue water use by many smallholder farmers scattered
throughout the landscape. The book provides an innovative framework
for mapping ecological productivity where gross returns from water
consumed in agricultural and natural vegetation are quantified. The
book provides a multi-objective optimization analysis involving
green and blue water users, including the environment. The book
also assesses the uncertainty levels of using remote sensing data
in water resource management at river basin scale.
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