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In recent years the demand for improved assessments tools to help in understanding the wetland hydrological and hydrodynamic processes for the Barotse floodplains is ever increasing especially with the advent of climate change/variability. Despite several studies in the Upper Zambezi Basin, there...

This study sought to investigate the extent to which land use changes in Ndola Urban during the 22 years (1993-2015) have affected the planform of the Kafubu River using GIS and remote sensing techniques. The major objective was to assess the extent to which land use changes in Ndola urban have...

Reservoir sedimentation is one of the temporally and spatially distributed challenges facing managers of small reservoirs today. Fluvial system formed the geomorphological plinth of the study. The study was motivated by the problem of sedimentation in the Makoye Reservoir (about 60500 m2), which...

Sedimentation is one of the problems that affects the storage capacity of most small reservoirs, and if not addressed on time, may lead to the dams being filled up with sediment and failing to meet the intended objective of providing agricultural water for food and economic security. The aim of...

The governance philosophies of the UNIP and MMD governments were very different. These were expected to drastically influence economic performance and livelihoods. The study was undertaken to compare how agricultural crop production among smallholder farmers changed in time and space. The main...

There are many small dams in Zambia constructed for the purpose of collecting and storing runoff from the catchments. The flow of water into dams is accompanied with sediment resulting from soil erosion within reservoir catchments. The deposition of sediment in reservoirs has implications for...

Tourism has been among the most neglected sectors in Zambia, yet elsewhere, it is the major foreign exchange earner. Zambia has not realised the full benefits which tourism brings. Consequently, in 1996, the government developed a new policy on economic diversification to include tourism. The new...

This study assessed surface water availability in Solwezi River basin in Northwestern Province of Zambia. The main objective was to quantify various components of the water balance to ascertain surface water availability in Solwezi River Basin in view of the increasing water demand. Climate data...

This study embarked on trend analysis to understand the relationship that exists in weather, precipitation and river flow using time series data. The study area was the entire country of Zambia. Secondary hydrological and weather data used was representative of the six catchment areas of the...

In Zambia, the need to conserve water resources through technologies that can easily be managed by the local communities has resulted in the construction of small dams. However, small dams are adversely impacted by sedimentation due to soil erosion in the catchment area. The aim of this study was...