Assessment of water resources availability and demand in the Mara River Basin

Catena

Volumn 115, Issue , 2014, Pages 104-114

  Dessu, Shimelis Behailu ^a   Melesse, Assefa M ^a   Bhat, Mahadev G ^a   McClain, Michael E ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Irrigation; Mara River; SWAT; Water availability; Water demand

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INDEX METHOD; IRRIGATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RIVER BASIN; SIMULATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

MARA BASIN;

EID: 84891294042     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.11.017     Document Type: Article

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