Water resources development and utilization is usually not integrated with Ethiopia's overall socio-economic development objectives. In the above Assisted by the CROPWAT software, the irrigation requirements of the different ...

The gravity supply of water to irrigation fields can be achieved by impounding schemes or diversion schemes. Unlike impounding dams, diversion structures for irrigation are usually exposed to ...

The mam purpose of this study was mainly to accurately estimate the inflow components of Lake Tana from both gauged and un-gauged catchments for water balance modeling. Distributed physically based hydrological model ...

The agriculture in Malagarazi sub basin (East party of Burundi) is currently dependent on rainfed system with limited use of irrigation. Highly variable and erratic rainfall and lack of means to store water in Malagarazi ...

Wadla woreda is located in south western parts of north wollo zone at latitude of 11°36'35.03" N and longitude of 38°55'54.06"E. This study appraises the design practice and failure of the river diversion structure for ...

Existing data on topography, climate, soil, land use pattern, water availability, agricultural practices, investment costs and socioeconomic practices are investigated and the irrigation suitability criteria is defined based ...

The study area, the Abaya chamo Basin is a sub basin of the Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes Basin .It comprises two lakes Abaya and Chamo, perennial rivers, and other ephemeral rivers are entering at Chamo and an over flow ...

In SNNP Region a total of approximately 56022 ponds were constructed in the last few years. From the result of this study 54% from the total ponds have already totally failed and around 6% of the ponds performing below ...

To stay alive in earth surface, land and water are indispensible. To enhance the agricultural productivity and socioeconomic development in agricultural catchment, irrigation development is an important issue. ...

Irrigation development is one of the key strategies to increase agricultural production to generate profit. One of the main factor rain fed dependent agriculture is rainfall variability and unreliability ...