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M.T. Kashifi ; F.S.M. Al-Ismail ; S. Chowdhury ; H.M. Baaqeel ; M. Shafiullah ; S.P. Tiwari ; S.M. Rahman |Water scarcity is a global challenge, especially in arid regions, including Middle Eastern and North African countries. The distribution of water around the earth is not even. Trading water in the form of an embedded commodity, known as the wate[...]Article
As civilization advances, water resources are increasingly being consumed for domestic, industrial, and agricultural purposes, reducing the ability to find an equilibrium of water security and growing demands. This study presents an analysis and[...]Article
Lobjectif de cette étude est danalyser les stratégies individuelles et les déterminants dadaptation au changement climatique (CC) des irrigants dans le sud-est Tunisien. Un questionnaire denquête a été administré à 157 chefs dexploitations [...]Article
Groundwater serves as the most reliable source of water both for domestic use and for irrigation in arid zones, which are characterized by low rainfall and high evaporation. To overcome the water scarcity in these regions traditional water manag[...]Article
M. Yazdanpanah ; K. Klein ; T. Zobeidi ; S. Sieber ; K. Lohr |Sustainable water usage is an important global concern and an urgent priority, especially in dryland regions such as Iran. The Iranian government is actively addressing the challenge of water scarcity by encouraging farmers to adopt new water ap[...]Article
The pressure on water resources that Algeria encounters is due to the scarcity and the water demand increase by different sectors of activity. This induces managers to reconsider the traditional supply management approach. The new water policies[...]Article
H. Filali ; N. Barsan ; D. Souguir ; V. Nedeff ; C. Tomozei ; M. Hachicha |In this paper, a comprehensive review on greywater is presented. Emphasis is given to the techniques used to treat and recover greywater, and special emphasis is placed on the risk of the existence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in greywa[...]Article
Le Liban est un pays méditerranéen avec une superficie de 10 452 km2, dont 65 % sont karstiques, il est considéré riche en eaux superficielles et souterraines, mais en dépit de cette richesse, le Liban montre une pénurie en eau à cause de [...]Ouvrage
Le contexte du changement climatique et de la transition agroécologique renforce lexigence dun usage sobre de leau en agriculture. Lirrigation fait lobjet de nombreux débats quant à lamélioration de ses performances tant technologiques qu[...]Article
Les terres irriguées, rares, sont au cur des enjeux de sécurité alimentaire dans de nombreux pays en développement car elles sont les plus productives. Leur extension représente un choix stratégique pour beaucoup de ces pays. En Algérie, comme [...]Article
H. Gasmi ; M. Kuper ; E.S.P.R. Martins ; S. Morardet ; J. Burte |In many countries, the challenge of sustaining rural water supplies is entrusted to community organizations, which have difficulties in performing durably the operation, maintenance and cost recovery of rural water supply systems. This paper ana[...]Article
Olive trees are one of the few alternative crops available for farmers in arid environments. In many of these regions, surface irrigation is increasing. The aim of this study was to estimate the pattern of water soil reserves through the season [...]Article
S. Baccour ; J. Albiac ; T. Kahil ; E. Esteban ; D. Crespo ; A. Dinar |Water scarcity and water quality degradation are major problems in many basins across the world, especially in arid and semiarid regions. The severe pressures on basins are the consequence of the intensification of food production systems and th[...]Article
Egypt suffers from severe water scarcity, which affects the sustainability of agricultural production. Therefore, the sustainable use of available water resources under water scarcity requires the adoption of water allocation policies favoring c[...]Article
The water pollution risk is considering a topical subject in Algeria and throughout the world, especially in view of the problems of water scarcity and the climate change phenomena. The infiltration of untreated urban waste into the subsoil pres[...]Article
Les eaux souterraines sont devenues indispensables pour lagriculture dans les pays semi-arides et dont les ressources en eau sont sous forte pression. À de rares exceptions près, elles sont longtemps restées invisibles. Leur mise en visibilité [...]Article
D. Sadi ; L. Aziz ; A. Khattabi |Connue pour labondance des terres collectives et des ressources hydriques, la commune rurale El Faid, relevant de la province de Taroudant, est considérée comme lune des zones les plus propices pour lagriculture. La présente étude a pour obje[...]Article
S.A. Salman ; S. Shahid ; A. Sharafati ; G.S.A. Salem ; A. Abu Bakar ; A.A. Farooque ; E.-S. Chung ; Y.A. Ahmed ; B. Mikhail ; Z.M. Yaseen |Assessment of possible changes in crops water stress due to climate alteration is essential for agricultural planning, particularly in arid regions where water supply is the major challenge for agricultural development. This study aims to projec[...]Article
The Maghreb regions (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) are facing increasing water scarcity amplified by inefficient water use and overexploitation of water resources. There is evidence that surface water is diminishing and that g[...]Article
La France reçoit chaque année environ 500 milliards de mètres cubes d'eau de pluie, dont les deux tiers s'évaporent à travers la végétation et le sol. Le reste alimente les eaux de surface et souterraines. En 2017, 32 milliards de mètres cubes d[...]Article
Climate change is expected to have serious economic and social impacts on Tunisian rural farmers. The extent of these impacts will largely depend on the level of political and structural adaptations. This study aims to evaluate the effect of inc[...]Article
Dans le bassin versant de lOued Daoura, la vie oasienne est fondamentalement basée sur lagriculture. Cependant, avec les conditions climatiques difficiles où leau se fait rare, le recours à lirrigation est une priorité. En plus, les besoins [...]Article
Food system analysis in arid and semi-arid countries inevitably meets water availability as a major constraining food system driver. Many such countries are net food importers using food subsidy systems, as water resources do not allow national [...]Article
L'avenir des sociétés et des environnements en Afrique se joue en partie autour de la gestion de l'eau. La croissance démographique, l'élévation du niveau de vie des populations et l'urbanisation constituent des défis majeurs pour un continent e[...]Article
Water conflicts in transboundary watersheds are significantly exacerbated by insufficient freshwater sources and high water demands. Due to its increasing population and various development projects, as well as current and potential water shorta[...]Article
Treated wastewater is constantly produced and relatively unaffected by climatic conditions, while Constructed Wetlands (CWs) are recognized as green technology and a cost-effective alternative to improve treated wastewater quality standards. Thi[...]Article
C. Esgalhado ; M.H. Guimaraes ; S. Lardon ; M. Debolini ; M.V. Balzan ; S.C. Gennai-Schott ; M. Simon Rojo ; I. Mekki ; S. Bouchemal |The influence of human use and management of natural resources has grown to the point that it becomes difficult to separate socio-economic from environmental components in land systems (Turner, Lambin, & Reenberg, 2007). Sustainability in these [...]Article
H. Zeggane ; R. Ghernaout ; D. Boutoutaou ; S.S. Abdullah ; B. Remini ; O. Kisi |The problems of water quality and quantity have the potential to affect users of the resource at the watershed scale. Watershed management is considered as an effective approach that brings together all water users around the core related issues[...]Article
E. López Gunn ; M. Rica ; P. Zorrilla-Miras ; L. Vay ; B. Mayor ; A. Pagano ; M. Altamirano ; R. Giordano |Nature based solutions are proposed as integrated solutions to transform the current water intensive economic model to a more balanced model, where water is considered as an eco-social asset. We analyse the logic of action and underpinning belie[...]Article
D. Hoehn ; M. Margallo ; J. Laso ; I. Ruiz-Salmon ; A. Fernandez-Rios ; C. Campos ; I. Vázquez-Rowe ; R. Aldaco ; P. Quinteiro |The availability of freshwater is one of the biggest limitations and challenges of food production, as freshwater is an increasingly scarce and overexploited resource in many parts of the world. Therefore, the concept of water footprint (WF) has[...]