Progressive development of water resources in the Middle East for sustainable water supply in a period of climate change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1931, 2010, Pages 5339-5350

  Issar, Arie S ^a   Adar, Eilon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Desalination; Desertification; Groundwater; Irrigation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DESALINATION; EFFLUENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; REPLENISHMENT (WATER RESOURCES); SEAWATER; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

BRACKISH GROUND WATER; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DEEP DRILLING; DESERTIFICATION; DEVELOPMENT PLANS; DRYING-UP; GROUNDWATER RESERVES; IRRIGATION METHODS; MIDDLE EAST; NATURAL WATER RESOURCES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; STEP-BY-STEP; SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLY; TREATED EFFLUENT;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

EID: 78649338803     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0184     Document Type: Article

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