**Acknowledgements**

The authors express special thanks to the Ministry of Water, Irrigation, and Electricity (MWIE), Ethiopia, Department of Hydrology, and National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia for supporting streamflow, sediment concentration, and weather data of Genale catchment based on the request. Finally, we are grateful for the invitation of the IntechOpen publisher to contribute a chapter to "Global Warming and Climate Change," book, which extensively fills the knowledge gap of the readership.

#### **Conflict of interest**

The authors declare no conflict of interest.
