Problems of river-water management for a basin west of Mount Kenya: challenge to water resource planners.
Date
1993Author
Gathenya, J. M
Liniger, H. P
Gichuki, F. N.
Mungai, D. N
Gachene, C. K. K
Thomas, D. B
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A case study was conducted in two reaches in the Naro Moru river basin, which extends from the humid western slopes of Mount Kenya to the semi-arid Laikipia plateau. The study involved measuring the amount of water abstracted from all abstraction points, as well as river discharge, for a period of eight months starting from November 1990. Results showed that the amount of water abstracted from each reach as a percentage of the available river inflow rose from 10% at the end of the wet season to over 60% at the end of the dry season. A survey of water permits revealed that legal abstractions constituted 30% of the amount abstracted during the wet season, but only 8% of the dry season abstractions. Communal water supply systems taking water for domestic use, for watering livestock and for irrigation accounted for over 90% of the water that was abstracted from the river during the period of study.
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http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20013004106.htmlhttp://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/51869
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F. N.;Mungai, D. N.;Gachene, C. K. K.;Thomas, D. B. Gathenya, J. M.; Liniger, H. P.; Gichuki, F. N.Problems of river-water management for a basin west of Mount Kenya: challenge to water resource planners. ;1993Publisher
University of Nairobi, college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,