Impact of water overexploitation on highland lakes of eastern Ethiopia

Environmental Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-154

  Alemayehu, Tamiru ^a   Furi, Wagari ^b   Legesse, Dagnachew ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Oromiya Water Well Drilling Enterprise   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Groundwater; Surface water; Water resources

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; LAKES; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHERING;

LAKE WATER; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

GROUNDWATER;

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE;

DEFORESTATION; GROUND WATER; IRRIGATION; LAKES; SURFACE WATER; WEATHERING;

AFRICA; ALEMAYA; AWODAY; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; HARAR; LAKE ADELE; LAKE HAROMAYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33847337381     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0468-x     Document Type: Article

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