Integrated assessment of groundwater resources in the Ouémé basin, Benin, West Africa

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 236-250

  Barthel, R ^a   Sonneveld, B G J S ^b   Gotzinger J ^a   Keyzer, M A ^b   Pande, S ^b   Printz, A ^a   Gaiser, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benin; Diarrhea prevalence; Groundwater; Hydrological modelling; Integrated water resources management; RIVERTWIN

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDROGEOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WELL DRILLING; WELLS;

BENIN; DIARRHEA PREVALENCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RIVERTWIN;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ACCESSIBILITY; DATABASE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PARAMETERIZATION; RECHARGE; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

AFRICA; BENIN [WEST AFRICA]; OUEME RIVER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 59349102564     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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