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Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
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Water resources are the basic elements of life, and they are considered as the best
way for durable management in any country worldwide. The increasing demand of
water for drinking, irrigation of agricultural crops, and industry needs is the first
inquiry of the Algerian authority. The major challenges of constant water supply are
related mainly to spatiotemporal water availability and water quality. In water
resources management, water quality plays a key role as important as that of
water quantity. The Algerian authority faced serious problems in managing its
water resources; however, academics and specialized engineers enlightened the
road with integrated solutions for policymakers to tackle these issues and make the
right decisions to achieve the sustainable management of these life resources.
This book of water resources in Algeria discusses the situation of water
resources in this country by assembling an interesting number of works from
different specialized Algerian researchers. With the aim to support the sustainable
development in Algeria as an arid country in the MENA region, the chapters detail
information about the current status of water resources in Algeria including hydrological
investigations of surface water and groundwater, the impact of climate
change on water resources, characterization of groundwater aquifers, and the
assessment and management of water resources. Some chapters focused on surface
and groundwater quality assessment using tools and techniques that can sustain the
management of water/soil resources in the arid zones of Algeria.
This book serves as a tool, long-awaited and mostly needed, for scientists and
readers of miscellaneous disciplines related to water resources. The book is more
helpful to the readership that seeks to obtain a clear grasp of key principles and
concepts as well as applied and case studies on hydrogeology and water resources
management. The authors of the chapters explained the principal methods used for
the optimum utilization of water resources with regard to their quality and spatiotemporal
availability, the theoretical predictions of some hydrological phenomena,
the available tools for hydrological modeling, and water resources protection
against deterioration through the mitigation of harmful agents/effects of water
and thus ensuring the well-being of human communities and their environment.
The authors share their vision about sustainable water management activities, as
well as recent advances, directions for future research, which should be at the same
time, the challenges of ensuring adequate water supply, and optimal allocation of
different uses that are compounded by changes in climate, land use, and demography.
Accordingly, this book represents a unique piece and a reference of interest to
students, scientists, engineers, policy- and decision-makers, and water resource
managers. The book includes several tools that can be generated to understand
similar problems threatening water resources in North Africa, the Middle East, the
Mediterranean basin, or in other regions having similar climatic and/or geographical
features as Algeria. Based on the subjects treated and discussed in the different
chapters, this book will be of interest to a large scientific community in Algeria and
in other countries.
Therefore, the book titled “Water Resources in Algeria: Assessment of Surface
and Groundwater” is written by experts from Algeria who know well the facts of
water resources in Algeria and the factors affecting its demand and supply to update
and enhance the existing knowledge on water resources in Algeria concerning two
important sources, namely surface water and groundwater. The book consists of 12
chapters in addition to the introduction part, which consists of two chapters, and the
conclusion part, which consists of one chapter. The main themes of the book
include (a) Current Status of Water Resources in Algeria (3 chapters), (b) Climate
Change Impact and Hydrogeological Investigations (5 chapters), (c) Aquifer Characterization
and Assessment of Groundwater Resources (2 chapters), and (d)
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