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28-10-2021 Declining groundwater levels ranging between 3-7 metres per year in critical basins, an estimated annual water shortage of 1.4 billion cubic metres and an annual per capita water availability of only 85 cubic metres. These are some of the distressing findings of our study on water availability in…

03-02-2020 The Ziway-Shalla basin (Central Rift Valley, Ehtiopia) suffers from a combination of land degradation and agricultural expansion. The agricultural expansion is marked by a shift from rainfed to irrigated horticulture, resulting in intensification in the use of water resources and ultimately a…