Effect of new Nag Hammadi Barrage on groundwater and drainage conditions and suggestion of mitigation measures

Water Resources Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-337

  Dawoud, Mohamed A ^a,b,c   Allam, Ahmed R ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (Egypt)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Drainage; Egypt; Groundwater; Numerical modeling; Surface water groundwater interaction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER LEVELS;

BARRAGE; HEAD POND WATER LEVEL; PUMP STATION;

GROUNDWATER;

BARRAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC HEAD; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 9144231382     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WARM.0000048484.39933.9e     Document Type: Article

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