%O The authors are grateful to UNE in Australia for providing postgraduate research support to the first author, and NMA, MWIEE and EIAR in Ethiopia for their support. %K Awash Basin; hydro-climate; variability; streamflow; trend; Ethiopia; sustainable water management strategies %A M T Tadese %A L Kumar %A R Koech %A Z B Birhanu %I MDPI %V 6 (2) %L icrisat11178 %J Hydrology %N 35 %P 1-19 %R 10.3390/hydrology6020035 %D 2019 %T Hydro-Climatic Variability: A Characterisation and Trend Study of the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia