Research Article
Suitability of Water Harvesting in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia: A First Step towards a Mesoscale Hydrological Modeling Framework
Table 2
Suitability classes of different constraint factors used to identify suitable areas for water harvesting schemes using MCE weighted overlay technique.
| Suitability score () | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Rainfall (mm) | <200 | >1200 | 200–400 | 800–1200 | 400–800 |
| Slope | >20% | 12–20% | 8–12% | 2–8% | <2% |
| Land cover | Bushland, forest, | N.A. | N.A. | Plantations | Cultivated land | | woodland, grassland | | | irrigated land | | | swamp, Shrubland | | | | |
| Soil | N.A. | Leptosols | Arenosols, | Vertisols | Luvisols, Cambisols | | | | Regosols | Acrisols, Alisols | Fluvisols, Nitisols |
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