The Water Resource Implications Of Changing Climate In The Volta River Basin
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Author |
: Matthew McCartney |
Publisher |
: IWMI |
Total Pages |
: 46 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789290907640 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9290907649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Water Resource Implications of Changing Climate in the Volta River Basin by : Matthew McCartney
The Volta River is one of the major rivers in Africa. In this study, a dynamic regional climate model (CCLM), a hydrological model (SWAT) and a water resource model (WEAP) were used to provide an assessment of one downscaled ‘middle impact’ climate change scenario on the performance of existing and planned irrigation and hydropower schemes. The results indicate that, by the middle of the twenty-first century, altered climate is likely to undermine the technical performance of existing and planned reservoirs, which will, in turn, affect development outcomes. Future water resources development in the basin requires interventions that bolster resilience and water security. Much more systematic planning of water storage, greater cooperation between the riparian states and consideration of innovative approaches to water storage are needed.
Author |
: Marloes Mul, Emmanuel Obuobie |
Publisher |
: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 2015-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789290908296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9290908297 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water Resources Assessment of the Volta River Basin by : Marloes Mul, Emmanuel Obuobie
Author |
: Timothy O. Williams |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2016-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317479536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131747953X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Volta River Basin by : Timothy O. Williams
The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the issues and challenges faced. The authors provide a science-based assessment of current and future scenarios of water availability, the demands of key sectors, including agriculture and hydropower, and the environment under changing demographic, economic, social and climatic conditions. They also identify solutions and strategies that will allow available water resources to be sustainably used to improve agricultural productivity, food security and economic growth in the VRB. Overall, the work examines from a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective the solutions and strategies to improve the use of water and other natural resources in the VRB to achieve enhanced food security, livelihoods and economic growth.
Author |
: Salif Diop |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 521 |
Release |
: 2021-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030612252 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030612252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa by : Salif Diop
The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable areas, exploring potential management responses to such vulnerabilities. The African countries are particularly exposed and vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, with important impacts on water resources and hydrological systems, water availability, water resource management and sea level variations. Already, under various anthropogenic pressures, the status of water resources in Africa has been changing over the past decades, with decreasing water quality, falling groundwater levels, and variability in rainfall, both in terms of timing and intensity. Climate change will further accelerate the rate of change, affecting the ability of people and societies to respond in a timely manner. It is clear that there is no quick fix to the pressures imposed on water resources by climate change. Increasing the resilience of ecosystems and communities to extreme events such as flooding and drought, and integrating climate change risks and opportunities into development decision-making is indeed a key challenge, as much a technical climate-change one, as a political and developmental challenge. The book, in this regard, intends to contribute to the debate around climate change in relation to water resources management in Africa, and in particular inform policy decisions and actions that will improve governments’ and communities’ ability to manage the challenges of climate change and variability in relation to the aquatic ecosystems that they depend on. The knowledge collected in this book will benefit policy makers, researchers, as well as other stakeholders.
Author |
: Christina Anagnostopoulou |
Publisher |
: MDPI |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 2021-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783036501109 |
ISBN-13 |
: 303650110X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Impact of Climate-Change on Water Resources by : Christina Anagnostopoulou
- Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.
Author |
: Amos T. Kabo-bah |
Publisher |
: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 60 |
Release |
: 2011-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3845416513 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783845416519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Rapid Overview of Water Research Projects in the Volta Basin by : Amos T. Kabo-bah
The effective management of transboundary international rivers has become urgent in recent times as a result of rapid population growth, industrial expansion and negative fluxes from climate change impact. The Volta River Basin is drained by an international river shared among Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Benin, Mali and Togo. There have been several attempts at reaching a laudable regional cooperation in this basin since the last decade. These efforts had been capacity building, empowerment of vulnerable communities and steps towards the establishment of the Volta Basin Authority. There is no comprehensive document assessing the level of impact of these dotted projects in the basin. Therefore, this document hopes to bridge this gap by providing a quick overview of the most important water research projects that have taken place in the basin in the last decade and the thematic areas covered by these projects. It will serve as a guide in the formulation of specific project goals to avoid duplication in the basin and, as a result enable stakeholders to focus on precise problems that have not been tackled by previous or current projects.
Author |
: Alper Baba |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2011-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400711457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 940071145X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources by : Alper Baba
National and global security can be assessed in many ways but one underlying factor for all humanity is access to reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing industry. In many parts of the world, population growth and an escalating demand for water already threaten the sustainable management of available water supplies. Global warming, climate change and rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside. Pro-active resource management decisions are required, but such efforts would be futile unless reliable predictions can be made about the impact of the changing global conditions on the water cycle and the quality and availability of critical water reserves. Addressing this wide spectrum of issues, a team of expert authors discusses here the impacts of climate change on the global water resources, the long-term resource management goals at global and local scales, the data requirements and the scientific and technical advances necessary to mitigate the associated impacts.
Author |
: C. Fai Fung |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2011-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444348170 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444348175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources by : C. Fai Fung
The quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on water availability and water resources management requires knowledge of climate, hydro(geo)logical and water resources models, and particularly the relationships between each of them. This book brings together world experts on each of these aspects, distilling each complex topic into concise and easy to understand chapters, in which both the uses and limitations of modelling are explored. The book concludes with a set of case studies using real-life examples to illustrate the steps required and the problems that can be faced in assessing the potential impacts of climate change on water resource systems. For students, scientists, engineers and decision-makers alike, this book provides an invaluable and critical look at the information that is provided by climate models, and the ways it is used in modelling water systems. A key focus is the exploration of how uncertainties may accrue at each stage of an impacts assessment, and the reliability of the resulting information. The book is a practical guide to understanding the opportunities and pitfalls in the quantitative assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation in the water resource sector.
Author |
: Anton Earle |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2015-05-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136228360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136228365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate by : Anton Earle
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways – adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.
Author |
: Larry Swatuk |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2018-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351369411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351369415 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect by : Larry Swatuk
In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many countries for action is limited and may result in a ‘boomerang effect’, defined as the unintended negative consequences of such policies and programmes on local communities and their negative feedbacks on the state. To avoid this effect, there is a need to understand the policy drivers, decision-making processes, and impacts of such action, in order to determine the ways and means of minimizing negative effects and maximizing mutually beneficial policy outcomes. This book directly engages the policy debates surrounding water resources and climate actions through both theoretical and comparative case studies. It develops the ‘boomerang effect’ concept and sets it in relation to other conceptual tools for understanding the mixed outcomes of state-led climate change action, for example ‘backdraft’ effect and ‘maldevelopment’. It also presents case studies illustrative of the consequences of ill-considered state-led policy in the water sector from around the world. These include Africa, China, South Asia, South America, the Middle East, Turkey and Vietnam, and examples of groundwater, hydropower development and forest hydrology, where there are often transboundary consequences of a state's policies and actions. In this way, the book adds empirical and theoretical insights to a still developing debate regarding the appropriate ways and means of combating climate change without undermining state and social development.