“…However, for the Awash Basin, it was proposed to select the public (i.e., free available) models so as to avoid this limitation. Accordingly, six in-stream models were considered for screening the applicable one: (1) INCA (Integrated Catchment) (Whitehead et al, 2018(Whitehead et al, , 2021(Whitehead et al, , 1998, (2) WASP8 (Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program) (Ranjith et al, 2019), (3) QUASAR (Quality Simulation along Rivers) (Cox, 2003;Ranjith et al, 2019), (4) QUAL2KW (Bui et al, 2019;Chapra et al, 2015;Pramaningsih et al, 2020), ( 5) CE-QUAL-RIVI, and (6) SIMCAT (Simulation of Catchments) (Cox, 2003;Ranjith et al, 2019).…”