posted on 2018-02-12, 15:07authored byFrank Simpson, Peter P. Hudec, Enuvie G. Akpokodje, Meshach O. Umenweke
The research project, Gully erosion, Nigeria, involved
cooperation between the geology departments of the
University of Windsor and the Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
Awka, Anambra State, and the University of Port Harcourt,
Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Research teams from the
universities worked in partnership with rural people in
Abia, Anambra, Enugu, and Imo States from 1993 to 1997.
Political events intervened and the project participants next
were reunited in 1999. The extended project term came to
an end in 2000. The goal was to reduce gully erosion in
southeastern Nigeria. The purpose was to discover reasons
for the large numbers of gullies in the region and to design
a strategy for the control and prevention of gully erosion.
The funding agency was the International Development
Research Centre, Ottawa. Hudec et al. (1998) described
the geological engineering properties of those materials
that are especially susceptible to gully erosion. The present
account relates some aspects of project research to concepts
of water resource management. Use of “strategic” in the
title draws attention to the importance of this to the
national security of Nigeria.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Published in
WEDC Conference
Citation
SIMPSON, F. ... et al, 2001. Strategic water resource management, Nigeria. IN: Scott, R. (ed). People and systems for water, sanitation and health: Proceedings of the 27th WEDC International Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 20-24 August 2001, pp. 402-404.
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