The water crisis in the Gaza Strip: Prospects for resolution

Ground Water

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 653-660

  Weinthal, E ^a   Vengosh, A ^b   Marei, A ^c   Gutierrez, A ^d   Kloppmann, W ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DEGRADATION; OSMOSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

COASTAL AQUIFERS; SALINE GROUND WATER; WATER SOURCES;

GROUNDWATER;

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

GROUNDWATER; SALINIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RELATIONS; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FRESH WATER; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; GAZA STRIP; MIDDLE EAST; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; WORLD;

EID: 14944357020     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00064.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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