Exemplifying the Effects Using WetSpass Model Depicting the Landscape Modifications on Long-Term Surface and Subsurface Hydrological Water Balance in Bilate Basin, Ethiopia

Table 6

Details of land use land cover.

LULC class	Description
Open waters	Water passages such as rivers and streams, and open water bodies such as lakes and ponds
Settlement	Areas covered with buildings either in rural and urban; it contains commercial, residential, industrial, and transportation infrastructures
Agricultural land	All cultivated land, arable land fixed with rain-feed and irrigated crops, annual crops, and mixed with permanent crops and some woody vegetation, orchards, groves, vineyards, nurseries and horticultural areas
Forests	All type of forests and woodland, including eucalyptus trees, deciduous forest land, evergreen forest land, and mixed forest land
Shrub land	Bush or shrub-dominated land with isolated trees always with a lower range of grass and mainly wild shrubs, both indigenous and extraterrestrial
Grassland	Grassland with low productivity often situated in plains, rough ground, or rocky areas
Barren land	Areas with little or no “green” vegetation present due to erosion, overgrazing, and excavated for mining