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Item West Africa – Water Resources Vulnerability Using a Multidimensional Approach: Case Study of Volta Basin. Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources.(Elsevier Inc., Academic Press, 283–309., 2013) Gordon, C; Nukpeza, D; Tweneboah-Lawson, E; Ofori, B.D; Yirenya-Taiwiah, D; Ayivor, J.S; Koranteng, S; Darko, D; Mensah, A.MChanges in climatic conditions have been evident over West Africa in the past decades. Decrease in rainfall amount led to severe droughts during the 1970s and 1980s. There has been a shift of the climatic zones in a southerly direction. Consequently, most of the Volta Basin in Burkina Faso is now located in the Sahelian and Sudano-Sahelian zones. As a consequence of instability in the rainfall pattern, many rivers have dried up, large tracts of land cover have been degraded, and the water table is drawing down.