Management of Scarce Water Resources : A Middle Eastern Experience (Progress in Water Resources) - Hardcover

H K El-Naser

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184564414X ISBN 13: 9781845644147

Publisher: WIT Press, 2009

Synopsis

Arid and semi-arid countries have historically suffered from a plethora of complex water concerns due to its climatic limitations. Research in these regions has long supported the necessity of delivering life sustaining access and availability to water while being inherently linked to several inter-related factors, including technical and economic issues, human resources, health and private sector participation. Regional conflicts and controversial political agendas have also exercised a profound impact on the viability of co-operative water resource and management perspectives. Dr Hazim El-Naser has applied his experiences as a water expert and ministerial position in Jordan by looking at a wide variety of water related topics that explore the problems the MENA countries face in respect to water resource management. This book focuses on his experiences to highlight the complexity of these problems and advocate practical solutions, and uses recent case studies to provide a framework to assist the practitioner in resolving these problems.

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About the Author

Dr. Hazim K. El-Naser, currently a member of Jordan's House of Representatives, is the former Minister of Water and Irrigation and Minister of Agriculture of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where he was involved in developing long-term plans for Jordan's Water Sector and managing a number of projects. Before joining the ministry, he worked in research and lectured at the Water Research and Study Center-of the University of Jordan, and in Germany at the Department of Applied Hydrogeology-University of Wuerzburg, and at the Institute for Hydrochemistry and Hydrology-the Technical University of Munich, and was a Groundwater Modeling Expert with the German Consultants Buro fur Geotechnik und Umweltfragen (BGU), and WATEC Ingenieurgesellschaft fur Hydrogeologie und Hydrochemie in Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: WIT Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 184564414X
• ISBN 13: 9781845644147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224