Combining GIS with multicriteria decision making for siting water harvesting ponds in Northern Jordan

Al‐Adamat, Rida; Diabat, Abdullah; Shatnawi, Ghada

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.07.001

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“…Bamne [35], Al-Adamat [27] and Nasr [36] argued that one of the main reasons we do not use RWH sufficiently in the Middle East and North Africa is insufficient knowledge of the socio-economic contexts. There are several socio-economic criteria such as ownership, family size, education etc., and to identify good indicators for socio-economic conditions in relation to the functioning of these RWH systems is much more difficult than the biophysical ones.…”

Section: Socio-economic Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Methodology to Assess and Evaluate Rainwater Harvesting Techniques in (Semi-) Arid Regions

Adham

Riksen

Ouessar

et al. 2016

Water

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Arid and semi-arid regions around the world face water scarcity problems due to lack of precipitation and unpredictable rainfall patterns. For thousands of years, rainwater harvesting (RWH) techniques have been applied to cope with water scarcity. Researchers have used many different methodologies for determining suitable sites and techniques for RWH. However, limited attention has been given to the evaluation of RWH structure performance. The aim of this research was to design a scientifically-based, generally applicable methodology to better evaluate the performance of existing RWH techniques in (semi-) arid regions. The methodology integrates engineering, biophysical and socio-economic criteria using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) supported by the Geographic Information System (GIS). Jessour/Tabias are the most traditional RWH techniques in the Oum Zessar watershed in south-eastern Tunisia, which were used to test this evaluation tool. Fifty-eight RWH locations (14 jessr and 44 tabia) in three main sub-catchments of the watershed were assessed and evaluated. Based on the criteria selected, more than 95% of the assessed sites received low or moderate suitability scores, with only two sites receiving high suitability scores. This integrated methodology, which is highly flexible, saves time and costs, is easy to adapt to different regions and can support designers and decision makers aiming to improve the performance of existing and new RWH sites.

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Section: Socio-economic Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Methodology to Assess and Evaluate Rainwater Harvesting Techniques in (Semi-) Arid Regions

Adham

Riksen

Ouessar

et al. 2016

Water

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“…Analisis hidrologi dapat digunakan sebagai dasar untuk mendisain struktur dari sistem panen hujan dan aliran permukaan (Raji et al, 2011). Al-Adamat et al (2010) melaporkan tentang metode yang menggabungkan kearifan lokal dengan GIS (Geo-informatics) untuk menyusun kriteria panen hujan untuk mengantisipasi persaingan penggunaan air yang makin meningkat berbagai sektor. Alayyash et al (2012) kemudian mengembangkan dengan menggabungkan pengamatan geofisik dan tanah dengan bantuan GIS.…”

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Kriteria Rancang Bangun Sistem Panen Hujan Dan Aliran Permukaan: Studi Kasus Das Cisadane Hulu

Heryani¹,

Adi²,

Kartiwa³

2013

J.Ris.Geo.Tam

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ABSTRAK Banjir dan kekeringan merupakan dua fenomena alam yang dapat mengancam sistem produksi pertanian dan ketahanan pangan nasional. Secara kuantitatif masalah banjir terjadi akibat kesenjangan dua hal yaitu: masalah distribusi dan kapasitas (storage). Distribusi curah hujan yang tidak merata secara spasial dan temporal menyebabkan kelebihan air di musim hujan dan kekurangan air di musim kemarau. Teknik konservasi tanah dan air dapat dilakukan melalui berbagai cara antara lain melalui pemanenan air hujan dan aliran permukaan menggunakan embung, dam parit, dan lain-lain.

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“…However, water resources assessment on the catchment scale is therefore one of the key activities to provide insight into water available for agricultural purposes (Abdulla et al, 2002;Al-Adamat et al, 2010).…”

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Assessment of surface water resources availability using catchment modelling and the results of tracer studies in the mesoscale Migina Catchment, Rwanda

Munyaneza

Mukubwa

Maskey

et al. 2014

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In the present study, we developed a catchment hydrological model which can be used to inform water resources planning and decision making for better management of the Migina Catchment (257.4 km 2 ). The semidistributed hydrological model HEC-HMS (Hydrologic Engineering Center -the Hydrologic Modelling System) (version 3.5) was used with its soil moisture accounting, unit hydrograph, liner reservoir (for baseflow) and MuskingumCunge (river routing) methods. We used rainfall data from 12 stations and streamflow data from 5 stations, which were collected as part of this study over a period of 2 years (May 2009 and June 2011). The catchment was divided into five subcatchments. The model parameters were calibrated separately for each sub-catchment using the observed streamflow data. Calibration results obtained were found acceptable at four stations with a Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency index (NS) of 0.65 on daily runoff at the catchment outlet. Due to the lack of sufficient and reliable data for longer periods, a model validation was not undertaken. However, we used results from tracer-based hydrograph separation from a previous study to compare our model results in terms of the runoff components. The model performed reasonably well in simulating the total flow volume, peak flow and timing as well as the portion of direct runoff and baseflow. We observed considerable disparities in the parameters (e.g. groundwater storage) and runoff components across the five sub-catchments, which provided insights into the different hydrological processes on a sub-catchment scale. We conclude that such disparities justify the need to consider catchment subdivisions if such parameters and components of the water cycle are to form the base for decision making in water resources planning in the catchment.

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Combining GIS with multicriteria decision making for siting water harvesting ponds in Northern Jordan

Cited by 113 publications

References 19 publications

A Methodology to Assess and Evaluate Rainwater Harvesting Techniques in (Semi-) Arid Regions

A Methodology to Assess and Evaluate Rainwater Harvesting Techniques in (Semi-) Arid Regions

Kriteria Rancang Bangun Sistem Panen Hujan Dan Aliran Permukaan: Studi Kasus Das Cisadane Hulu

Assessment of surface water resources availability using catchment modelling and the results of tracer studies in the mesoscale Migina Catchment, Rwanda

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