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Variation of flow of water from Rivers Nzoia, Yala and Sio into Lake Victoria

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Sangale, Felix
Okungu, John
Opango, Peterlis
Date
2011
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Variation of flow of water from Rivers Nzoia, Yala and Sio into Lake Victoria Sangale Felix, Okungu John, and Opango Peterlis Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (LVEMP), Water Quality Component, P. O. Box 1922, KISUMU. Telephone, 035-42350, 44584

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The continuous collection of both hydrological and Meteorological data has been a problem in most areas of the world. Therefore, such data normally have gaps in the time series. For proper water quality management of any river or lake basin there must be a basis for quantification of pollution loads transported in the water. This is only possible if discharge data is known for the duration of study. In order to fill gaps existing in such data, a modelling approach can be employed to generate the missing data. An appropriate model must therefore be used in such cases. The changes in discharge depend on precipitation but can also be heavily influenced by various activities in the catchment. Estimation of flow for rivers Sio, Nzoia and Yala draining the northern catchment of the Kenyan basin of Lake Victoria was carried out for a 50-year period. This study used the NAM hydrological model in order to fill in the missing data for a time series and estimate the flow. In order to generate initial continuous rainfall data for a minimum of 5 years, employing a double mass curve technique using the data measured at different stations did a correlation. Lake level (stage) was used to estimate rainfall for the gaps after the correlation. Continuous data for 50 years from 1950 to 2000 was finally generated and used for the calculation of discharge for the three rivers. The variation in discharge for the 50 years period was therefore evaluated. The average discharge results showed that Nzoia had a discharge of 118 m3/s; Sio 12.1 m3/s and Yala had 27.4 m3/s. There was a general increase in flow over the years contributing to the water balance of the lake and also pointing to increase in rainfall run-off possibly resulting from degradation of the catchment

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Model; Discharge; Simulation; Catchment; Stage
Publisher
Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP)
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http://hdl.handle.net/11671/824
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