Water balances pertaining to the flux of water through the Volta River Basin and a black box model of the rainfall …/runoff relationship for estimating the river flows into the Akosombo Reservoir are presented. As the water demand has approached supply …, the tradeoffs between competing water uses are likely to intensify. It is also apparent from the balances that land use …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local … regarding installed hydropower capacity and dam location instead of the standard economic assumptions of such costs. Our results …