1st Edition

Assessing the Impacts of Environmental Changes on the Water Resources of the Upper Mara, Lake Victoria Basin

By Fidelis Ndambuki Kilonzo Copyright 2014
306 Pages
by CRC Press

Growing population and unregulated access to forest land have exerted high pressure on the land and water resources of the recharge areas of the transboundary Mara river, in the Lake Victoria region leading to changes in land and water use patterns in the basin. This thesis considers the interactions among climate change and variability, water quality, land surface cover, hydrology, and human... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Overview of climate and land use change studies
3. SWAT hydrologic modeling in the larger Lake Victoria region
4. Description of the study area
5. Remote sensing data analysis
6. Soil, crop yield and water quality analysis
7. Trend analysis for assessment of climate Variability
8. Hydrological modelling
9. Modelling climatic change impacts on the hydrology of the Upper Mara basin
10. Modelling land use and management change impacts on the hydrology of the basin

Biography

Fidelis Kilonzo graduated (BSc) in Agricultural Engineering from JKUAT, Kenya. He has MSc qualifications in Water Resources Management from Leuphana University Lüneburg (Suderburg Campus), Germany as well as an MSc in Environmental sanitation from Gent University, Belgium. He has worked in Kenya as a Sales Engineer (RVMS ltd), Environmental officer (NEMA-Kenya) and Industrial Research Scientist (KIRDI).

He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering (Water and Environmental Engineering), Kenyatta University (Kenya). He has research interests in sustainable adaptations strategies to climatic change impacts on water resources, including natural attenuation and reuse systems. Other interests include scenario management as a decision support tool in integrated water resources management.