ANALYSIS OF DROUGHT CHARACTERISTICS IN WATER RESOURCES PLANNING -A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Droughts and floods are natural phenomena and have consi-derable adverse effects on the developmental activities, particularly in case of water resource development, Planners have given much emphasis on floods due to their immediate devastating effects while droughts still remain to be recogni-sed as important parameters in water resources planning. The existing definitions of droughts and the criteria to identify them are not very comprehensive and they do not reflect effect.-ively their pertinent features or impacts. These criteria! definitions are ina lenuate as they do not take into considera-tion some important factors.....