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Book The Niger River Basin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Inger Andersen
  • Publisher : World Bank Publications
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 0821362046
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book The Niger River Basin written by Inger Andersen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Niger River Basin, home to 100 million people, is a vital yet complex asset for West and Central Africa. It is the continent's third largest river basin, traversing nine countries -Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, C©þte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. The River embodies both these nations' livelihoods and their geopolitics. It is not simply water but rather an origin of identity, a route for migration and commerce, a source of conflict, and a catalyst for cooperation. Cooperation among decision-makers and users is crucial to address the threats to water resources. The Niger.

Book The Niger River Basin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Inger Andersen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Niger River Basin written by Inger Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Niger River Basin Authority (NBA) brings together nine countries to promote integrated water resources management across political borders. The nine - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria have embraced a shared vision to build institutional capacity, political agreement, and public support for cooperation. The countries agree that sustainable management and development of the basin's water resources are necessary to meet natural and man-made threats to their shared resources, and that progress can be achieved by integrating technical data on the hydrology and geography of the river system with judicious political and economic policy. The Niger river basin, home to 100 million people, is a vital and complex asset of West and Central Africa. The continent's third-longest river, the Niger is more than just a source of water. For the people of the nine countries it is a source of identity, a route for migration and commerce, a source of conflict, and now a catalyst for cooperation. Niger, with about 23 percent of the Basin within its borders, depends on river navigation (through Nigeria) to reach the sea. Nigeria, a major food grower on rain-fed and irrigated land, is the final downstream country. Its borders enclose some 80 percent of the Basin's population and about 28 percent of its territory.

Book Activities of the Lower Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority

Download or read book Activities of the Lower Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority written by Lower Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Niger River Basin

Download or read book Niger River Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Overview of the Development Challenges and Constraints of the Niger Basin and Possible Intervention Strategies

Download or read book An Overview of the Development Challenges and Constraints of the Niger Basin and Possible Intervention Strategies written by Regassa E. Namara and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Niger River Basin covers 7.5% of the African continent and is shared between nine riparian countries. The human population of the basin is growing at an average annual rate of about 3%, which makes the Niger River Basin one of the areas with the highest fertility rates in the world. The desert margin is expanding; climate change is negatively impacting rainfall; and urbanization, industrialization, and the human and livestock population are threatening the quantity and quality of available water resources. The basin population already suffers from chronic poverty. Based on a literature review, this paper suggests some key water-related and other interventions that are capable of easing the basin’s development challenges.

Book Niger River Basin Development Planning

Download or read book Niger River Basin Development Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water accounting in the Niger River Basin

Download or read book Water accounting in the Niger River Basin written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Niger River Basin is a transboundary basin covering nine riparian countries to the Niger River that are increasingly putting pressure on the available water resources as their populations expand. Yet, the nine countries are also among the poorest in the world and adequate exploitation of the water of the basin could be part of a broader strategy for poverty reduction in these countries. Major challenges to that end are the lacking water infrastructure and growing vulnerability to extreme weather hazards as the climate changes. In that context, a better understanding of the state of water resources in the basin is a crucial departure point for any measures towards the sustainable use of water. The Water Accounting Plus (WA+) system designed by IHE Delft with its partners FAO and IWMI has been applied to gain full insights into the state of the water resources in the basin.

Book Brief on the Activities of Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority

Download or read book Brief on the Activities of Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority written by Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assistance Needs for Developing the Niger River Basin

Download or read book Assistance Needs for Developing the Niger River Basin written by Canadian International Development Agency. Francophone Africa Division and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ecology of River Systems

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  • Author : Bryan R. Davies
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-09
  • ISBN : 9401732906
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book The Ecology of River Systems written by Bryan R. Davies and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of the ecology of running waters has come a long way during the past few years. From being a largely descriptive subject, with a few under tones concerned with such things as fisheries, pollution or control of blackflies, it has evolved into a discipline with hypotheses, such as the River Continuum Concept (Vannote et a/. 1980), and even a book suggesting that it offers opportunity for the testing of ecological theory (Barnes & Minshall 1983). However, perusal of the literature reveals that, although some of the very early studies were concerned with large rivers (references in Hynes 1970), the great mass of the work that has been done on running water has been on streams and small rivers, and information on larger rivers is either on such limited topics as fisheries or plankton, scattered among the journals, or not available to the general limnologist. The only exceptions are a few books in this series of publications, such as those on the Nile (Rz6ska 1976), the Volga (Morduckai Boltovskoi 1979) and the Amazon {Sioli 1984), and the recent compendium by Whitton (1984) on European rivers, among which there are a few that rate as large.

Book The Pollution Peril of the Niger River

Download or read book The Pollution Peril of the Niger River written by Sidy Ba and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examined the different types of pollution of the Niger River, as well as their consequences, known and visible, subtler and more unsuspected, but all as perilous. This book on the pollution peril brings scientific clarifications on the mechanisms of contamination of various types of pollutants and their impact on animal and plant species. The author proposes some possible solutions to prevent, limit and reduce the growing pollution of the Niger River.

Book Brief on the Activities of Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority  September  1986

Download or read book Brief on the Activities of Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority September 1986 written by Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Niger River Commission Study

Download or read book Niger River Commission Study written by Holmes & Narver and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning Role in the Development of the Niger River Basin

Download or read book Planning Role in the Development of the Niger River Basin written by Placide Amoussou Appalo and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: