Ground Water in North and West Africa
Author | : United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development |
Publisher | : New York : United Nations |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development |
Publisher | : New York : United Nations |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Holger Treidel |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0203120760 |
Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of fresh drinking water for almost half of the worlds population and it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated ecosystems. But despite this,
Author | : International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Water resources development |
ISBN | : 088936804X |
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Author | : Segun Adelana |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2008-09-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0203889495 |
Groundwater is Africa‘s most precious natural resource, providing reliable water supplies for many people. Further development of groundwater resources is fundamental to increasing access to safe water across the continent to meet coverage targets and reduce poverty. There is also an increasing interest in the use of groundwater for irrigated
Author | : Alan M. MacDonald |
Publisher | : ITDG Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
A user-friendly guide to developing groundwater for rural water supplies in developing countries. It provides information on simple, effective techniques for siting wells and boreholes, assessing resource sustainability, constructing and testing the yield of boreholes and wells, and monitoring groundwater quality.
Author | : Robert A. Berner |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1980-08-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780691082608 |
This book focuses mainly on the chemical composition of interstitial waters of sediments. Chapter 2 presents the basic theory used throughout the rest of the book in terms of a general diagenetic equation. Chapters 3,4,and 5 provides detailed discussion of each of the terms in general diagenetic equation as well as presentations of data. Chapters 6,7 and 8 gives examples of diagenetic calculation using the theory developed earlier.
Author | : Holger Treidel |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0415689368 |
Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of fresh drinking water for almost half of the world’s population and it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated ecosystems. But despite this, knowledge about the impact of climate change on groundwater quantity and quality is limited. Direct impacts of climate change on natural processes (groundwater recharge, discharge, storage, saltwater intrusion, biogeochemical reactions, chemical fate and transport) may be exacerbated by human activities (indirect impacts). Increased groundwater abstraction, for example, may be needed in areas with unsustainable or contaminated surface water resources caused by droughts and floods. Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends. Groundwater response to global changes is a complex function that depends on climate change and variability, topography, aquifer characteristics, vegetation dynamics, and human activities. This volume contains case studies from diverse aquifer systems, scientific methods, and climatic settings that have been conducted globally under the framework of the UNESCO-IHP project Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change (GRAPHIC). This book presents a current and global synthesis of scientific findings and policy recommendations for scientists, water managers and policy makers towards adaptive management of groundwater sustainability under future climate change and variability.
Author | : Segun Adelana |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2008-09-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0415452732 |
Groundwater is Africa’s most precious natural resource, providing reliable water supplies for many people. Further development of groundwater resources is fundamental to increasing access to safe water across the continent to meet coverage targets and reduce poverty. There is also an increasing interest in the use of groundwater for irrigated agriculture as the climate becomes more variable. Sustainable development of the resource is not a trivial task and depends crucially on an understanding of the hydrogeology and people with the skills to make informed decisions on how groundwater can best be developed and managed in a sustainable fashion. Despite these obvious needs, however, little attention has been paid to the systematic gathering of information about groundwater resources in the past few decades, with the result that data are patchy, knowledge is limited and investment is poorly targeted. This book was written to start to bridge the knowledge gap. The 29 chapters are written by a combination of practitioners and researchers mainly from within Africa using experience from recent and ongoing projects. The chapters highlight the complexity and variety of issues surrounding the development and management of groundwater resources across Africa, and provide a snapshot of groundwater research and application in the early 21st century. Chapters range from strategic discussions of the role of groundwater in development and poverty reduction, to case studies on techniques used to develop groundwater, and modelling methods for managing groundwater systems.
Author | : Nwamaka Chigozie Odili |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004364838 |
This work, Shared Water Resources in West Africa: Relevance and Application of the UN Watercourses and UNECE Water Conventions, addresses the question of whether riparian states in West Africa need to be parties to both the UN Watercourses Convention and the UNECE Water Convention, both of which have influenced current water regimes in the region. The initial transboundary water instruments in the region dealt primarily with navigation, later agreements addressed the need for cooperation, while recent regimes incorporate other principles of international water law articulated in the UN water treaties Although only six out of its numerous shared watercourses are currently regulated by legal instruments, West Africa contributed through these agreements to the development of international water prior to the adoption of the UN Watercourses and the UNECE Water Conventions in the 1990s.