Groundwater in Ethiopia: Features, Numbers and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9783662509586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 283 str.

Seifu Kebede

Opis

Updating the decades-old description of groundwater resources in Ethiopia, this exhaustive analysis deploys the latest geoscientific research in redefining our groundwater maps in Ethiopia, with implications for research across Africa as a whole.

Spis treści

Groundwater in regions and basins.- Very shallow and shallow groundwater.- Geochemistry and water quality.- Isotope hydrology in water cycle studies in Ethiopia.- Functions of Groundwater.- Groundwater potential, recharge, water balance: vital numbers.- Groundwater human health and sanitation.- Groundwater as strategic resource.- Groundwater management.