1st Edition
Hydrological Impacts of Land Use Changes on Water Resources Management and Socio-Economic Development of the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro River Basin in Kenya PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft
By Stephen Njuguna Ngigi
Copyright 2006
148 Pages
by
CRC Press
148 Pages
by
CRC Press
148 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Despite the apparently desperate situation of sub-Saharan Africa, rainwater harvesting and management is a viable intervention for upgrading rain-fed agriculture, improving water supply and sustainable livelihoods in water-scarce river basins. If strategies are developed to ensure equity allocation of basin water, a win-win situation for diverse water users can be achieved. This thesis assesses... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Research Background and Study Area 3. Conceptual and Analytical Framework 4. Agro-hydrological Assessment of On-farm Storage RHM Systems 5. Agro-Hydrological Assessment of In-Situ RHM Systems 6. Hydro-Economic Analysis and Farmers’ Investment Options 7. Flood Storage and River Water Abstraction 8. Conclusions and Recommendations
Biography
Stephen Njuguna Ngigi
