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  title info:
    title: Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa
  name:
    name part: Shahin, Mamdouh.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 659 p. online resource.
  abstract: Africa, the cradle of many old civilizations, is the second largest world continent, and the homeland of nearly one-eighth of the world population. Despite Africa’s richness in natural resources, the average income per person, after excluding a few countries, is the lowest all over the world, and the percentage of inhabitants infected with contagious diseases is the highest. Development of Africa to help accommodate the ever-increasing population and secure a reasonable living standard to all inhabitants, though an enormous challenge is extremely necessary. Water is the artery of life, without it all living creatures on earth cannot survive. As such, a thorough knowledge of the meteorological and hydrological processes influencing the yield and quality of the water resources, surface and subsurface, and their distribution and variability in time and space is unavoidable for the overall development of any part of the world. It is highly probable that the said knowledge is at present a top priority to Africa, a continent that has been for so long-and probably still-devastated by the endless ambitions of colonial powers not to forget the corruption and destruction practiced by the internal powers, at least in some countries. The present book “Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa” is written with the aim of bringing together in one volume a fair amount of knowledge any professional involved in hydrology and water resources of Africa needs to know.
  table of contents: Climate -- Analysis of Rainfall Data -- Evaporation -- Evapotranspiration -- Runoff, Streamflow, Erosion and Sedimentation -- Hydrology of Large River Basins: Eastern and Western Africa -- Hyrology of Large River Basins: Central and Southern Africa -- Hydrology of Selected Intermediate and Small River Basins -- Hydrology of Wetlands and Natural Lakes -- Large Dams and Storage Reservoirs, and Their Impacts -- Groundwater Resources of Africa -- Hydrology and Water Resources of African Islands -- Water Resources and Development of Africa.
  note: by Mamdouh Shahin.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Aquatic ecology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater & Marine Ecology
  classification: GB1001-1199.8
  classification: 551.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Water Science and Technology Library ; 41
  identifier: 9780306480652
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48065-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204181330.0
    record identifier: 978-0-306-48065-2