Hydrology and Water Harvesting Techniques of Wadi Muheiwir Catchment Area-The Case Study of Jordan

Al-Zu'bi, J.; Al-Zu’bi, Y.; Abubaker, Samih

doi:10.3923/jas.2010.298.304

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“…Jasem and Alraggad [65], Al-Adamat et al [66], and Ibrahim and Koch [67] presented a groundwater vulnerability map for the area, Gassen et al [68] delineated the protection zones of AWSA wellfield, and the remainder contributed to this goal by investigating the quality of groundwater in AWSA wellfield area [61,62,64,[69][70][71][72][73], in the northern region of the basin [74,75], in the southern region of the basin [76], in Qaser tuba landfill [77] and the Azraq Basin as a whole [26]. Furthermore, 18 studies contributed to goal 2.d., which focuses on improving the efficiency of storing and utilizing surface water, with 17 addressing various opportunities to utilize the surface water quantity and defining the suitable locations for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) [51,[78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93]. Only Salameh et al [94] addressed the topic of investigating the surface water quality.…”

Section: Goals Related To Water Supplymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The promotion of methods and technology to enhance the irrigation water supply (goal 4.f.) is addressed only by Al-Zubi, J. et al [89], who focused on water harvesting feasibility for irrigation use in the Wadi Muhweir catchment in the basin. The collected studies are neither aligned with the goal 4.b., which states, "Efficient bulk water distribution as well as efficient onfarm irrigation systems are established."…”

Section: Goals Related To Water For Irrigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the alternative water resources topic was addressed in the MWI strategy of 2008. Only two goals were addressed in the collected literature: firstly, goal 6.c., which aims to promote and encourage rainwater harvesting, where 11 studies addressed the potential of implementing rainwater harvesting in rural areas of the basin [78,80,81,[84][85][86][87][88][89]91,92]. These studies differ from each other mainly in that there is primary focus on different locations of the basin.…”

Section: Goals Related To Alternative Water Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…About 35% of the collected documents focused on modeling in terms of: (a) estimating the recharge rate [50,106], (b) enhancing the recharge amount [78,80,81,84,85,[87][88][89][90]92], (c) studying the impact of climate change on water resources [53], (d) assessing surface water and drought [51,55,107], (e) locating potential areas for groundwater abstraction [58,59], (f) analyzing time series [32,108], (g) building water quality models [70], (h) building groundwater models [29][30][31]54,[96][97][98], (i) delineating isohyetal maps for rainfall [93], (j) creating vulnerability maps [65][66][67], and (k) proposing sustainable water management plans [52,60].…”

Section: Research Focus Areas Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Novel Method to Assess the Impact of a Government’s Water Strategy on Research: A Case Study of Azraq Basin, Jordan

Alqadi

Dwairi

Dehnavi

et al. 2021

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Water scarcity drives governments in arid and semi-arid regions to promote strategies for improving water use efficiency. Water-related research generally also plays an important role in the same countries and for the same reason. However, it remains unclear how to link the implementation of new government strategies and water-related research. This article’s principal objective is to present a novel approach that defines water-related research gaps from the point of view of a government strategy. The proposed methodology is based on an extensive literature review, followed by a systematic evaluation of the topics covered both in grey and peer-reviewed literature. Finally, we assess if and how the different literature sources contribute to the goals of the water strategy. The methodology was tested by investigating the impact of the water strategy of Jordan’s government (2008–2022) on the research conducted in the Azraq Basin, considering 99 grey and peer-reviewed documents. The results showed an increase in the number of water-related research documents from 37 published between 1985 and 2007 to 62 published between 2008 and 2018. This increase should not, however, be seen as a positive impact of increased research activity from the development of Jordan’s water strategy. In fact, the increase in water-related research activity matches the increasing trend in research production in Jordan generally. Moreover, the results showed that only about 80% of the documents align with the goals identified in the water strategy. In addition, the distribution of the documents among the different goals of the strategy is heterogeneous; hence, research gaps can be identified, i.e., goals of the water-strategy that are not addressed by any of the documents sourced. To foster innovative and demand-based research in the future, a matrix was developed that linked basin-specific research focus areas (RFAs) with the MWI strategy topics. In doing so, the goals that are not covered by a particular RFA are highlighted. This analysis can inspire researchers to develop and apply new topics in the Azraq Basin to address the research gaps and strengthen the connection between the RFAs and the strategy topics and goals. Moreover, the application of the proposed methodology can motivate future research to become demand-driven, innovative, and contribute to solving societal challenges.

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Section: Goals Related To Water Supplymentioning

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Section: Goals Related To Water For Irrigationmentioning

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Section: Goals Related To Alternative Water Resourcesmentioning

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Section: Research Focus Areas Analysismentioning

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A Novel Method to Assess the Impact of a Government’s Water Strategy on Research: A Case Study of Azraq Basin, Jordan

Alqadi

Dwairi

Dehnavi

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“…They concluded that the applied model is applicable to estimate the surface runoff in arid region. Al-Zubi et al [34] carried out their research in a semi-arid area of WadiMuheriwir which is located in the Eastern part of Jordan. They estimated the runoff by applying the SCS-CN method using available rainfall data for the period 1976-2006.…”

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Estimation of annual harvested runoff at Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan region of Iraq

Zakaria¹,

Mustafa²,

Mohammed³

et al. 2013

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Kurdistan Region (KR) of Iraq has suffered from the drought period during the seasons 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 that affected the human and economic activities of the region. Macro rainwater harvesting (Macro RWH) is one of the techniques that can ensure water availability for a region having limited water resources. This technique is based on Soil Conservation Service-Curve Number (SCS-CN) method and the Watershed Modeling System (WMS) was used to estimate the runoff. Rainfall records of Sulaymaniyah area for the period 2002-2012 were studied and an average season was selected (2010-2011). The results of the application of the WMS model showed that about 10.76 million cubic meters could be harvested. The results also showed that the quantity of the harvested runoff was highly affected by rainfall depth, curve number values, antecedent moisture conditions (AMC) and the area of the basins.

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Effects of nitrogen rate on growth and quality of rapeseed blanket seedling for mechanized transplanting

Zuo

Zheng

You

et al. 2022

Journal of Plant Nutrition

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Hydrology and Water Harvesting Techniques of Wadi Muheiwir Catchment Area-The Case Study of Jordan

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

A Novel Method to Assess the Impact of a Government’s Water Strategy on Research: A Case Study of Azraq Basin, Jordan

A Novel Method to Assess the Impact of a Government’s Water Strategy on Research: A Case Study of Azraq Basin, Jordan

Estimation of annual harvested runoff at Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan region of Iraq

Effects of nitrogen rate on growth and quality of rapeseed blanket seedling for mechanized transplanting

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