WATER RESOURCE IN GENERAL AND ITS MANAGEMENT IN THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Water is essential for all living organisms on earth. Human beings use water for transportation, irrigation, domestic use, recreation, power development, and industrial purposes. More pressure is being placed on the world's available freshwater as a result of increasing water demand for agriculture, industries, rapid urbanization, recreation, and environmental flow. Ethiopia is an entirely landlocked country, occupying a large portion of the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is also a country with diverse landforms due to separating tectonic plates, including mountain highlands, the Great Rift Valley, and plateaus. Furthermore, the country has an abundance of annual rainfall as well as other significant water sources that might be established for irrigation and other purposes of development. Rainfall in the country exists in a variety of forms that conceivably utilized for irrigation and agriculture.