Egypt is facing increasing challenges in the water sector driven by the increased demand for water and increased pressures on the water resources of the River Nile. Due to the water challenges in Egypt, a number of integrated water management projects are starting to take place in order to improve the irrigation and drainage management and to increase the efficiency of irrigated agricultural water use and services. One of the projects adopted by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation to face this problem is the Integrated Irrigation Improvement and Management Project in old lands to increase the efficiency of water use and achieve the optimum benefit. The main objective of the present paper is to study the hydraulic analysis of El Mahmoudia canal which is an important canal in the West Delta. The canal feeds Alexandria and El Beheira governorates with drinking and industrial demands in addition to irrigating about 120,000 Hectares. The results of a hydraulic model study are presented in this paper in order to identify the most effective physical interventions. An ISIS one dimensional hydraulic model was used to integrate the canal supplies and demands to assess the sensitivity of the water balance and canal performance to trends in demands. The canal is used to meet demands from Alexandria and hence the growth in municipal demands has been an important constraint on the management of water levels in the canal. The study has been developed to explore the sensitivity of the canal to key assumptions and parameters and therefore provides a valuable tool for establishing a strategy for on-going canal monitoring and a framework for managing the dynamics in water resources.
Changes in riverine hydrography and reduced aquifer recharge due to projected climate changes in arid and semi-arid regions are the main issues of water supply, especially in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Continuous degradation results from reduced Nile water flow, poor management of groundwater extraction, and human activities throughout the Nile’s course and drainage channels. Contamination of this water with heavy metals and dissolved organic solids reduces the quality of this water, which increases the price of treatment. River Bank Filtration (RBF) is a water treatment technology used for improving the quality of drinking water taken from polluted rivers where abstraction wells are installed on the banks. This study was applied to the RBF site at Embaba, Nile Delta, Egypt using the numerical code MT3D. The study was simulated and calibrated for the current situation and number of scenarios to investigate the effect of climatic changes on RBF sustainability. Four scenarios were simulated to identify and estimate the RBF portion and the total water travel time from the river to the wells. The first scenario involves a reduction in river stages, the second a decrease in aquifer recharge, the third a combination of the first two scenarios, and the fourth scenario combines scenarios 1, 2, and 3. The results indicate that the RBF portion decreased from 67.42% in the base case to 35.46% and 64.99% with a reduction in river stage by 75% from the base case and a decrease in aquifer recharge from 182.50 (base case) to 50 mm per year, respectively. Moreover, the RBF portion increased to reach 87.75% with a reduction in the General Head Boundary of 75% from the base case, while the combination of the three scenarios decreased the RBF portion to 67.24%. Finally, the water supply systems in arid and semi-arid regions should be extended by installing and operating RBF facilities to manage the negative effects of climatic change through reduction in river stages and aquifer recharge, and increasing abstraction due to overpopulation.
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