Vulnerability assessment of water resources systems in the Eastern Nile Basin

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2697-2725

  Hamouda, Mohamed A ^a   Nour El Din, Mohamed M ^b   Moursy, Fawzia I ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Eastern Nile; Egypt; Ethiopia; Indicators; Integrated assessment; Sudan; Vulnerability; Water systems

Indexed keywords

EASTERN NILE; EGYPT; ETHIOPIA; INDICATORS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; SUDAN; VULNERABILITY; WATER SYSTEMS;

WATER ANALYSIS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

WATER RESOURCES;

INTEGRATED APPROACH; RIVER BASIN; RIVER MANAGEMENT; VULNERABILITY; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EGYPT; NILE BASIN; NORTH AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

EID: 70349264407     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9404-7     Document Type: Article

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