This paper proposes a new Economic Drought Management Index (EDMI) that could assist water managers to inter … various scenarios of climate change, and for a 8-year real period, which includes three consecutive drought years. Results … show that the region's vulnerability to drought could be reduced following the interpretation of the EDMIs. EDMIs under …

to confront highly variable rainfall patterns. In this paper, we derive and propose an economic drought management index … (EDMI) to evaluate water institutions' performance to cope with drought risk. The EDMI is based on the optimal conditions of …

especially the drought phenomena have become frequent in Africa. This has prompted water engineers and hydrologists to formulate … mitigation and adaptation measures to address these challenges. The frequency of drought event of a defined severity for a …. This paper presents an analysis of the hydrological drought frequency for the upper Tana River basin in Kenya using the …