“…The soil water repellency is an indicator used in the assessment of land degradation. It is defined as the inability to get wet or water to seep into the soil , it is an unstable phenomenon, it is more pronounced when the soil is drier, it can happen naturally or after forest fires (Robichaud et al, 2000) and it is generally indicated as the reduction of the amount of water infiltration in the soil (Telman et al, 2000;Krolow et al, 2019).…”