Environmental flow assessment as a tool for achieving environmental objectives of African water policy, with examples from East Africa

McClain, Michael E.; Kashaigili, Japhet J.; Ndomba, Preksedis

dc.creator	McClain, Michael E.
dc.creator	Kashaigili, Japhet J.
dc.creator	Ndomba, Preksedis
dc.date	2017-02-27T13:08:00Z
dc.date	2017-02-27T13:08:00Z
dc.date	2013
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-25T08:52:59Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-25T08:52:59Z
dc.identifier	https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1301
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93214
dc.description	Africa has set ambitious targets for development of water resources over the coming decades. Africa Water Vision 2025 calls for a doubling of irrigated agriculture and a five-fold increase in water use for agriculture, industry, and hydropower. The ambitious development targets are framed in the context of integrated water resources management, which also seeks to simultaneously allocate sufficient water for environmental sustainability. Over the past two decades scientists have devised a number of practical and robust approaches to determine environmental water requirements in rivers and wetlands based on the objectives set in water planning. We review the most widely applied approaches to assess environmental flow requirements and consider their application in Africa through case studies in the transboundary Mara River basin of Kenya and Tanzania and the Great Ruaha River basin in Tanzania.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	International Journal of Water Resources Development
dc.subject	Environmental flow assessment
dc.subject	Integrated Water Resources Management
dc.subject	Africa
dc.subject	Kenya
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.subject	Mara River
dc.subject	Great Ruaha River
dc.title	Environmental flow assessment as a tool for achieving environmental objectives of African water policy, with examples from East Africa
dc.type	Article