Prioritizing Watersheds for Intervention Design Using GIS and Remote Sensing

Authors

  • Endaweke Assegide

    1. Ethiopian Institute of Water Resource, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 150461, Ethiopia; 2. School of Architecture and Engineering, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama P.O. Box 1888, Ethiopia; 3. Water and Land Resource Center, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 3880, Ethiopia
  • Tena Alamirew

    1. Ethiopian Institute of Water Resource, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 150461, Ethiopia; 2. Water and Land Resource Center, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 3880, Ethiopia
  • Claire L. Walsh

    School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
  • Gete Zeleke

    Water and Land Resource Center, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 3880, Ethiopia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v7i1.6887
Received: 20 July 2024 | Revised: 13 August 2024 | Accepted: 19 September 2024 | Published Online: 25 November 2024

Abstract

In many developing countries with poorly managed landscapes, soil erosion threatens the sustainability of water bodies. The main limitations of this study are the lack of daily sediment data, lithology, higher-resolution DEM data, and socioeconomic factors. Poor land use policy and resource management in the Upper Awash Sub-basin lead to soil erosion and sedimentation of hydrological infrastructure, Effective watershed prioritization requires integrating land use, hydrology, sediment load, and morphometric factors but often faces gaps, especially in the study area. This research aims to prioritise the Upper Awash Sub-Basin by its morphometric, land use and cover (LULC), and sediment yield characteristics. We used the integrated AHP-VIKOR multi-attribute decision-making method to prioritise watersheds, incorporating morphometry, LULC, and sediment load attributes in the simple matrix approach. The findings showed the following classes of erosion: exceedingly high (2722.14 km2), high (2524.46 km2), moderate (2205.48 km2), low (1611.43 km2), and extremely low (854.35 km2). Sub-watersheds WS6, WS8, WS10, WS13, and WS24 are the top priority for watershed management. The study ranked watersheds based on various attributes but encountered limitations such as the lack of daily sediment data, geological structure, and lithology. It can be concluded that this approach is very important to identify and categorize hotspots of soil erosion sub-watersheds for planners and decision-makers for conserving water and soil and for different environmental management purposes.

Keywords:

Morphometric Analysis; Soil Erosion; MCDM; VIKOR; AHP; SWAT

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