Groundwater in Ethiopia Features, Numbers and Opportunities /

This book provides a comprehensive description of groundwater resources in Ethiopia and its various dimensions (groundwater as resource, environmental functions, and socioeconomics). The prevailing knowledge of groundwater resources in Ethiopia (or elsewhere in Sub Saharan Africa) was based on geolo...

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Main Author: Kebede, Seifu. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Springer Hydrogeology,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30391-3
Table of Contents:
  • Groundwater in regions and basins
  • Very shallow and shallow groundwater
  • Geochemistry and water quality
  • Isotope hydrology in water cycle studies in Ethiopia
  • Functions of Groundwater
  • Groundwater potential, recharge, water balance: vital numbers
  • Groundwater human health and sanitation
  • Groundwater as strategic resource
  • Groundwater management.