Browsing by Author "Forkuor, Gerald"

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Shallow Groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: Current Status and Future Sustainability
(2010) Barry, Boubacar; Kortatsi, Benony; Forkuor, Gerald; Gumma, Murali Krishna; Namara, Regassa; Rebelo, Lisa-Marie; van den Berg, Joost; Laube, Wolfram
"The Atankwidi Catchment, which lies in the White Volta Basin in West Africa, is intensively cultivated by locals for economic gains. During dry seasons, farmers irrigate their crops, chiefly tomatoes, using shallow groundwater harvested from shallow ponds they dig using simple tools like an axe, hoe, bucket and bowls. Recent expansion in cultivated areas has brought to the fore the need to estimate the volume of shallow groundwater stored in the catchment’s underlying aquifer and to what extent it can sustain the incremental growth in irrigated areas."
The Water Resource Implications of Changing Climate in the Volta River Basin
(2012) McCartney, Matthew; Forkuor, Gerald; Sood, Aditya; Amisigo, Barnabas; Hattermann, Fred; Muthuwatta, Lal
"The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has published a paper examining the potential impacts of climate change on food and energy production in the Volta River Basin. The Volta River supplies the water needs of more than 24 million people in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. It also hosts a number of major water management and hydropower development projects, such as the Akosombo Dam in Ghana and Lake Volta, the world’s fourth largest reservoir by volume. The IWMI report uses climate and hydrological modelling to identify and quantify the potential threat that climate change poses to existing and planned development projects."