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Philippe CECCHI Page 1 AfricaGIS'2007 Why an Atlas of Lakes and Reservoirs in Burkina Faso? CECCHI Philippe. IRD - UR 167 CyRoCo, BP 182 – Ouagadougou 01. MEUNIER-NIKIEMA Aude. INSS, Ouagadougou. MOIROUX Nicolas. IRD - UR 167 CyRoCo, Ouagadougou. SANOU Bakary. IRD - UR 167 CyRoCo, Ouagadougou. BOUGAIRE Francis. DGRE, Ouagadougou. Abstract Lakes and reservoir constitute in sahelo-soudanian countries of western Africa a strategic issue in the fight against rural poverty. Burkina Faso, with more than 1 500 lakes and reservoirs largely scattered at the national scale, appears for a long time as a leader country regarding the number of, and the importance devoted to, these infrastructures. The synoptic signification of these water masses, their global value including both risks and benefits potentially associated to their presence and their usages, remain however largely under-evaluated. Basically, trivial data as exact number, localization, size, etc. are often lacking. From an environmental point of view, regards focused on the water quality and the health status of such artificial aquatic ecosystems are strongly influenced by anthropogenic factors (sensu largo) potentially involved in the control of ecosystem's properties. It appeared thus natural to stimulate interactions between aquatic ecologists and landscape observers (geographers, mainly) to better assess the interactions linking aquatic and terrestrial environments.
- qualité d'eau
- burkina faso
- écologie des écosystèmes aquatiques
- eau avec le ghana
- interactions liant les écosystèmes aquatiques
- homme contre l'homme
- nouveauté écologique
- réservoir
- écologie des plans d'eau