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