This study was to assess the community adaptation towards shrinking of Lake Chad Basin Borno State, north east Nigeria. The objectives were to: investigate the evidences of climate change in the communities of Lake Chad Basin Borno State, assess the communities challenges due to climate changes, recommend possible solutions to the problems associated with the ef ects of climate changes in the af ected communities; Data for the study were obtained from both primary and secondary sources, secondary data were obtained from meteorology station and trend analysis of time series was done to examine the evidences of climate changes in the study area, while primary data was sourced through the administration of guided questionnaires to 252 respondents in the study area and human responses were analysed by Descriptive statistics of simple percentages, while bar charts were used to investigate and assessed the several community’s measures against the ef ects of climate change to water resource.....

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The purpose of the research was to determine the effects of climate change on wetland water resources. The survey has captured the research questions, objectives, types of data  collected, procedure and analysis. Data from meteorology station that covers the period of thirty  years from 1980-2010 was used. The objective of this study was to assess the evidences of climate  change in the Lake Chad basin Borno state, measure the climate change effects on the seasonal  variations, investigate and assess the local adaptation measures undertaken by communities to the  effects of climate change on wetlands and identify the significant differences between adaptation  approaches and respondent?s  gender,  age  and  academic  qualifications.  Random  sampling   technique was conducted to select 252 respondents as 20% of the sample from a population of 1277.   Descriptive  statistics  of  percentages,  bar  charts  were  used  to  investigate  and assessed  .....

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