Research Article
Prioritization of Susceptible Watershed to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia
Table 14
Sediment reduction using grassed waterway simulation.
| Hot spot subbasin | Average annual sediment loading (t/ha/year) | Reduction (%) | Baseline | After GWAT |
| 1 | 19.72 | 11.53 | 41.56 | 2 | 33.18 | 21.12 | 36.35 | 3 | 23.52 | 18.86 | 19.81 | 4 | 33.49 | 21.36 | 36.22 | 5 | 40.99 | 21.82 | 46.75 | 6 | 15.80 | 11.70 | 25.96 | 7 | 16.81 | 9.83 | 41.51 | 8 | 19.77 | 11.37 | 42.48 | 9 | 28.20 | 21.36 | 24.25 | 10 | 40.55 | 25.86 | 36.23 | 11 | 30.46 | 15.43 | 49.35 | 12 | 31.66 | 16.32 | 48.44 |
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