Evaluation of groundwater resources in the Geba basin, Ethiopia

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-466

  Tesfagiorgis, Kibrewossen ^a,b   Gebreyohannes, Tesfamichael ^a,c   De Smedt, Florimond ^a   Moeyersons, Jan ^d   Hagos, Miruts ^c   Nyssen, Jan ^e   Deckers, Jozef ^f  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Geba basin; Groundwater modelling; Transmissivity

Indexed keywords

ETHIOPIA; FIELD SURVEYS; GEBA BASIN; GROUNDWATER MODELLING; GROUNDWATER MODELS; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; HYDROGEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LIMITED DATA; MODFLOW; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; TRANSMISSIVITY;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LITHOLOGY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUITARD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD SURVEY; FLOW MODELING; GIS; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

ETHIOPIA; GEBA BASIN;

EID: 79960845624     PISSN: 14359529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10064-010-0338-3     Document Type: Article

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