In recent years, the increasing awareness of scarcity of water resources, indications of likely climate variability, and the increasing pressure to use available fresh water resources more efficiently have together reinforced the need to look at infrastructure solutions with due…
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Our current knowledge on chemicals in the Mediterranean Sea is presented. The increasing rates of exploitation and pollution are producing unprecedented environmental changes in this semi-enclosed sea, which is often considered a unique model to study global change evolution of …
Water resources in southern New Mexico are limited so efficient usage is required. Onions are a major crop in New Mexico, requiring frequent irrigation because their roots are shallow. Onion growers rarely know water requirements for their locations, so they apply more water tha…
The Fayoum basin of Egypt is a closed basin with a lack of natural drainage outlets. The saline drainage water disposed of and impounded into Lake Qaroun is subject to evapoconcentration. As a result of these physical and environmental constraints, water and salt management are …
Large cities in arid and semi-arid climates continually face problems in satisfying the demand for municipal water. Where water supplies are limited, one of the primary strategies is to conserve water use. Riyadh City in Saudi Arabia was selected as an example for minimizing wat…
Ancient water management, especially for irrigation purposes, has featured prominently in anthropological theories on the development of socio-political and economic complexity. Traditional approaches have assumed that centralized control was needed to meet the managerial requir…