عنوان

Creating flexibility in freshwater availability for the Eastern Nile Basin

شماره

TL49269

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Creating flexibility in freshwater availability for the Eastern Nile Basin

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Agustin Botteron

نام ساير پديدآوران

Islam, Shafiqul

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Tufts University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

120

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Garcia, Margaret; Roach, Brian

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-62737-4

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.S.

نظم درجات

Civil Engineering

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Tufts University

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

Water is an important resource for socio-economic development in the Eastern Nile Basin. Current water withdrawals are at the limits of available renewable water resources. Competing demands on water use and allocation include population increase, climate change uncertainty, and the socio-economic and political situation prevailing in the region. Scrutiny of the water balance shows this resource is not a binding constraint for development and that perceived water problems are the result of naturally occurring uneven distribution and inadequacies related to water resources mismanagement. This research aims at finding paths to create flexibility in water availability for the basin. Focus is set on agriculture, the largest land- and water-demanding sector. Examining irrigation efficiency, agriculture practices, rainwater harvesting, and cropping patterns several strategies are proposed and assessed. Results show there is potential to increase the annual water availability up to 11 billion cubic meters, a value representing 13% of the Nile Waters Agreement flow. The largest impact stems from strategies that have little or nothing to do with infrastructure for or policy on water resources, at least from a traditional standpoint. This work aims at shifting the current conversation- in a region where riparian countries struggle to allocate water framing it as a limited resource- to exploratory and collaborative efforts towards sustainable solutions by reframing water as a flexible resource.

موضوع مستند نشده

Agriculture; Civil engineering; Water Resource Management

اصطلاح موضوعی

Biological sciences;Applied sciences;Earth sciences;Agriculture;Efficiency;Flexibility;Nile Basin;Water availability

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sisneros, Katie Sue

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Islam, Shafiqul

تقسيم فرعي

Civil Engineering

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Tufts University

شماره بازیابی

1879824046; 10253464

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y