Maji: information bulletin on water resources activities in Africa no. 4

Abstract

The bulletin would serve as a forum for African water resources specialists to exchange information, ideas, experience, and news related to water resources development with each other. This has not been demonstrated as being the case for the last four issues of the bulletin. The bulletin urges the water resources specialists to come forward and share their ideas, experience and other information with their professional colleagues by contributing articles, news titbits etc. for possible publication in the next issues of the bulletin. This publication is presented in four parts. Part 1 consists of guidelines for the preparation of national water master plans adopted at an Expert Group Meeting held at Bangkok, Thailand from 8 to 12 May 1989. The annexes in part one contain several useful tables on water quality guidelines and water demand for domestic, industrial and agricultural (crop and livestock) water use. Part two comprises selected papers from several ESCAP countries. Part three is the report of the Expert Group Meeting. The final part consists of a manual for planning, design, operation and maintenance of irrigation systems.