An analysis of the impacts of land use change on the components of the water balance in the Central Rift Valley sub-basins in Ethiopia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F24%3A100690" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/24:100690 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40899-024-01050-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40899-024-01050-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40899-024-01050-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40899-024-01050-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An analysis of the impacts of land use change on the components of the water balance in the Central Rift Valley sub-basins in Ethiopia

Original language description

Water resources are influenced by changes in land use and land cover (LULC), such as industrialization, urbanization, forestry, and agriculture. This study has aimed to analyze past and predicted LULC dynamics and their impacts on the components of the water balance in the Central Rift Valley (CRV) sub-basins in Ethiopia. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and the Land Change Modeler (LCM) were employed to evaluate the impacts of past and future LULC dynamics in the Ketar, Meki and Shalla sub-basins. The SWAT models were calibrated with flow data from 1990 to 2001 and were validated with flows from 2004 to 2010, using SWAT-CUP in the SUFI-2 algorithm. LCM with Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network method for land transition scenario analysis and a Markov Chain method for predictions, as well as SWAT models with fixing-changing methods for simulations, were used to evaluate the condition of hydrological processes under the influence of changes in LULC. The analyses resulted in an annual runoff variation from - 20.2 to 32.3%, water yield from - 10.9 to 13.3%, and evapotranspiration from - 4.4 to 14.4% in the sub-basins, due to changes in LULC. Integrated land use planning is recommended for the management of water resources.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10503 - Water resources

Project

<a href="/en/project/QK1910086" target="_blank" >QK1910086: Controlled drainage (CD) as an effective approach for decreasing diffuse pollution sources from tile-drained agricultural watersheds</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainable Water Resources Management

ISSN

2363-5037

e-ISSN

2363-5045

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001177521900002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85187114134