Zambia: Maps Help Manage Water Resources

SciDev.Net (London)

10 August 2007
Posted to the web 10 August 2007

Michael Malakata
Lusaka

Zambian water authorities are using information from satellite images to improve management of water resources in the country.

The project, Integrated Water Resource Management for Zambia (IWAREMA), is part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) TIGER initiative (see African mapping highlights risk of drought and flood) which aims to help Africa overcome water-related problems and use satellite data to close the information gap on water availability.

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