This book is an outcome of the international conference on water resource management in arid regions at Kuwait in 2002. It focuses on areas encompassing major aspects of surface water hydrology. The book is useful for researchers, practitioners and graduate students.
Section 1: Water problems and policy
1. Water problems map, a way to
envision our water future
2. Issues, problems and policy principles related
to groundwater resources in Sudan
3. Agricultural drainage water reuse policy
in Egypt: Conservation and challenges Section 2: Water scarcity, conservation
and security
4. Coping with water scarcity: The future challenge
5. Water
distribution management towards waste conservation
6. Statutory regulations
for water conservation and water reuse
7. Graywater recycling
8. A vision for
water security and sustainability in the Arab world Section 3: Water
harvesting
9. The role of water harvesting in alleviating water scarcity in
arid areas
10. Water harvesting in the arid countries: The widan (rivers)
in Algeria and their management
11. Sustainable water harvesting in India: A
case study
12. Implications of rain water harvesting in the coastal aquifer
A case study
13. Applicability of remote sensing in rainfall-runoff water
harvesting in arid to semi-arid regions of Western India
14. Water harvesting
and conservation: Evaluation of the Tunisian experience
15. Water harvesting
practices in arid and semi-arid region of north of Gorgan Section 4: Decision
support systems
16. A decision support system for water resources planning in
Egypt
17. Development of a DSS for integrated water resources management
under environmental balance in Egypt
18. Decision support system for water
right analyses and control Section 5: Water resources development
19.
Hydropower and irrigation-potentials of reservoirs in arid regions
20.
Evaluation and storage of water resources in semi-arid regions
21. Global
warming and water resources in the arid and semi-arid regions: Considering
adaptation for sustainable development
22. Sustainable development of arid
regions in Iran using aquifer management (modern and traditional methods)
23.
Water supply project from Manavgat River of Turkey to arid Mediterranean
countries
24. Evaluation of corrosion inhibitors in drinking water supply
systems Section 6: Irrigation water management
25. Future perspectives of
irrigation in the Southern Mediterranean region: Policies and management
issues
26. Crop-water management for intensive production under restricted
water supply
27. Optimal real time scheduling of irrigation and power
generation for a multi-center pivot irrigation system
28. Determining water
requirements for landscape irrigation in Istanbul region
29. Water efficient
irrigation method for horticulture in arid region
30. Columnar fruiting cacti
as an effective technology in improving water use efficiency in the arid
regions
31. Effect of land leveling on water management and efficiency of
irrigation water at Upper Egypt
32. Protection methodology of irrigation
structures against sand movement risk
33. Evolutionary calibration of
downstream canal control algorithms
34. Variation of total friction head
losses and uniformity coefficients based on inlet pressure head in trickle
irrigation laterals
35. Decline of qanats in Iran: Reasons and potential
solutions Section 7: Management of water resources
36. Resource management in
water short basins
37. Rational decision making in water resources in the
presence of risk and uncertainty
38. Water management in Islam
39. Water
management in the Arabian Peninsula: Needed adaptations
40. Challenges of
water resources management in Brazilian semi-arid region
41. Integrated water
resource management at West Delta region and related problems
42. Water
management in the State of Bahrain: Two decades of experience and future
expectations
43. Management of water resources in Kuwait with special
reference to desalinated water
44. Sustainable water resources management of
Gaza coastal aquifer, Palestine
45. Stochastic finite element and risk
analysis on water resources management
46. Information technologies for water
resources management
47. Management model on sharing transboundary water
resources
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