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| Image number: | 704 |
| Feature : | reservoir silting up |
| Grouping : | lakes, reservoirs,pond and wells |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2001 |
| Locality : | May Abage |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tigray |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | Reservoirs in Northern Ethiopia are silting up quickley, due to high erosion rates in the reservoir basins. Life expectance of this type of reservoirs is of the order of 10-20 years. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2001 Image 704. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |