Refining reserve flow recommendations for the Mara River, Kenya and Tanzania
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Title:
Refining reserve flow recommendations for the Mara River, Kenya and Tanzania
Creator:
Global Water for Sustainability
USAID
Publisher:
Global Water for Sustainability Program
Language:
English
Physical Description:
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Abstract:
The Mara River Basin, Kenya/Tanzania, is a critical, trans-boundary resource that sustains both the livelihoods of nearly one million people, many of whom are rural poor, who depend on the river for drinking water and ecosystem services, and the world-famous protected areas of the Maasai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park. Increasing land use change, declining flow levels and degradation of ecosystem health in the Mara River led to the undertaking of an Environmental Flow Assessment (EFA)in 2006. The primary objective of this EFA was to determine reserve flows for the river from where it exits the Mau Forest to where it enters the Maasai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park. The EFA was undertaken by East African and international scientists in conjunction with both Kenyan and Tanzanian water resource managers.

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Florida International University
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