Streamflow Analysis in Data-Scarce Kabompo River Basin, Southern Africa, for the Potential of Small Hydropower Projects under Changing Climate

In developing countries with data scarcity challenges, an integrated approach is required to enhance the estimation of streamflow variability for design water supply systems, hydropower generation, environmental flows, allocation and pollution studies. The Flow Duration Curve (FDC) was adopted as a tool that influenced by topography, land use cover, discharge climate change. from Global Climate Model (GCM) projections, based on Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 RCP 8.5 scenarios, were used input SWAT model simulation streamflow. FDCs then derived simulated FDC showed insignificant differences, whilst it increase 5–10% in baseline period, which likely generation potential some considerable variability. utilizing FDC, GIS flow could be useful scarce regions.