Ethiopia's Omo Valley

The travel section of The New York Times posted on 30 October 2017 an article titled "Up Close With the Tribes of Ethiopia's Imperiled Omo Valley" by Andrew McCarthy.

This is a travel piece that emphasizes the ethnic groups of the Omo River Valley. It has some excellent photography.

Ethiopia: Omo River Basin Development and Human Rights

Springer Open Access recently posted an entire book titled River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa -- A Policy Crossroads by Claudia J. Carr, University of California at Berkeley.

The book is a detailed analysis of river basin development on the Omo River in Ethiopia. It contains the following chapters:

--At Stake with River Basin Development in Eastern Africa.
--The Persistent Paradigm for 'Modernizing' River Basins: Institutions and Policies.
--The Seismic Threat to the Gibe III Dam: A Disaster in Waiting.
--Transboundary Survival Systems: A Profile of Vulnerability.
--Components of Catastrophe: Social and Environmental Consequences of Omo River Basin Development.
--The Rush to Rationalize: Public Policies and Impact Assessments.
--The Dasanech of the Lowermost Omo Basin: From Adaptation to Development.
--Nyangatom Livelihood and the Omo Riverine Forest.
--Turkana Survival Systems at Lake Turkana: Vulnerability to Collapse from Omo Basin Development.
--Human Rights Violations and the Policy Crossroads.

Kenya's Lake Turkana and Ethiopia's Hydropower Projects

The National Geographic magazine published in August 2015 an article titled "The Last Rites for the Jade Sea?" by Neil Shea.  It discusses the potential impact on Lake Turkana in Kenya of a series of dams on the Omo River in Ethiopia, which supplies 90 percent of the water for Lake Turkana.  It includes an excellent map in the upper left hand corner of the article that can be enlarged.