This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced
technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing
of Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake that
supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates
regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges. Proper
understanding of the lake and changes in its physical dynamics
(e.g., water level, shorelines and areal dynamics) resulting from
the impacts of climate variation and climate change as well as
anthropogenic (e.g., hydropower and irrigation) is important for
its management as well as for strategic development before, during
and after climate extremes (e.g., floods and droughts) in order to
inform policy formulations, planning and mitigation measures. Owing
to its sheer size, and lack of research resources commitment by
regional governments that hamper its observations, however, it is a
daunting task to undertake studies on Lake Victoria relying solely
on in-situ "boots on the ground" measurements, which are sparse,
missing in most cases, inconsistent or restricted by governmental
red tapes. To unlock the potentials of Lake Victoria, this book
argues for the removal of obsolete Nile treaties signed between
Britain, Egypt and Sudan in the 1920s and 1950s, which prohibits
its utilization by the upstream countries. The book is useful to
those in water resources management and policy formulations,
hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers. In a
unique cross-disciplinary approach, the Book articulates the
various climatic impacts and explanations from natural and
anthropogenic origins, which affected Lake Victoria and its
vicinity, including the drastic increase and depletion of water
level in the Lake and dams, floods and droughts, water
quality/security, crop health, food security, and economic
implications. With no exception as in his many publications, Joseph
L. Awange used data analysis methodologies including filtering,
adjustment theory, and robust statistics, to quantify the
hydrologic and other parameters, and their estimated uncertainties.
The Book is recommended for readers from a diverse disciplines,
including physical and social sciences, policy, law, engineering,
and disaster management. Professor C.K. Shum, Ohio State
University.
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