For many purposes such as water supply, irrigation flood control and hydropower production, many reservoirs are built throughout the planet. However, because of the processes of erosion and sedimentation, these infrastructures ...

Sosiani catchment hosts Eldoret Town, a major agricultural, education and medical center in the Rift valley region of Kenya. Recent research has established that the quality of water in Sosiani River is rapidly deteriorating ...

During the last years, problems of flows risks have become a very interesting issue in Tunisia due to many factors such as changes in the land use. Deforestation together with agriculture expansion, due to the anthropogenic ...

After an extensive literature review on the methods of vulnerability mapping, analysis of the European project COST action 620, a geological and hydrological study of Merchich watershed, we saw the possibility of the ...

Erosion by water remains the predominant form of land degradation in the world and accounts for 84% of affected areas. More particularly, the Mediterranean costal region is recognized to be of extreme fragility to erosion. ...

Soil erosion by water considered as serious problem in the Mediterranean region due to the aggressive characteristics of the Mediterranean climate, the mountainous terrain, the traditional farming and other anthropogenic ...

Climate change presents a major challenge to agriculture, particularly in rainfed systems such as Senegal’s peanut basin. This study evaluates the potential impacts of climate change on peanut productivity in Bambey, ...

Every area on the planet inhabited by humans is already experiencing the effects of climate change, with human activity responsible for many of the observed extreme climatic condition and changes in weather. Africa, ...

Senegal, like other coastal African countries, is home to some very important wetlands. These wetlands regulate flooding and help to reduce water deficits during periods of drought, as is the case in the Technopole ...