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Ethiopia has abundant water resources and contains the headwaters of numerous transboundary rivers, including the Nile. Key water stress metrics suggest Ethiopia is water stressed.
Similar to many African countries, parts of Ethiopia face water shortages, poor sanitation, and a lack of access to clean water sources. Ethiopia is located in Africa's Horn where drought and politics are two leading causes of water shortage.
15 maj 2024 · In this paper, we address a significant gap in the understanding of historical droughts in Ethiopia's 12 large river basins. Despite numerous studies on the impact of drought during Ethiopia's historical period and the drought situation in Ethiopia, there is a lack of comprehensive spatial and temporal estimates of these droughts.
In Ethiopia, water resources such as the Legedadi water supply, Geffersa water supply, Dire water supply and Sibilu water reservoirs are highly contaminated with nitrate, phosphate and ammonia due to anthropogenic activities.
30 cze 2016 · We investigated the ecological status of four large river basins using physicochemical water quality parameters and bioindicators by collecting samples from forest, agriculture, and urban landscapes of the Nile, Omo-Gibe, Tekeze, and Awash River basins in Ethiopia.
2 dni temu · Here, we present a comprehensive nationwide and regional analysis of heavy metal pollution in drinking water sources and the associated human health risks in Ethiopia based on a dataset of 11 heavy metal concentrations (n = 975) collated from available studies.
28 mar 2022 · Rapid loss of ecosystems and land-use change, in part due to agricultural intensification, have been among the major drivers for recent increases in water in sedimentation and water quality issues in Ethiopia (Moges et al., 2017).
