Water in the Arabian Peninsula

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ISBN: 9780863722462 | 0863722466
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/2000

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Water resources planning and policy, environmental considerations, food security issues state subsidies for agriculture and water, urban supply, development policy objectives are all themes that run through this multi-disciplinary book. The papers in this book indicate that without a coherent and integrated set of institutional and policy measures, further investment and new technologies may offer more problems than solutions.

List of Acronyms

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Introduction

(18)

Kamil A. Mahdi

SECTION I A BROAD REGIONAL OVERVIEW

1 Sustainable Water Policies in the Arab Region

(38)

Mahmood Ahmad

2 Planning Viable Water Strategies for the Arab Region

(16)

Hisham Khatib

3 The Political Economy of Middle East Water: Changing Perceptions

of the Economic and Strategic Roles of Water

(130)

J A. Allan and Alan Nicol

SECTION II RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND NON-CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA

4 Integrated Approach to Water Resource Development and Management in the GCC Countries

(30)

M. J. Abdulrazzak

5 Towards Water Resources Management in Yemen: Constraints and Opportunities

129

(22)

Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry

6 Strategies for Watershed Management in Southern Arabia

151

(36)

Abdu A. Shata

7 Prospects for Non-conventional Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula

Hosny Khordagui

SECTION III IRRIGATION ALTERNATIVES

8 Appropriate Alternatives for Irrigation Management in the Arab Region

187

(16)

Arab Organization for Agricultural Development

9 Water-use Performance and Comparative Costs among Surface and

Traditional Irrigation Systems in Northern Oman

203

(18)

W Ray Norman, Abdallah S. Al-Ghafri and Walid H. Shayya

10 Could Date Palms Ever Disappear from the Batinah?

221

(14)

Salination of a Coastal Plain in the Sultanate of Oman

Peter Cookson and Andre Lepiece

11 Reallocation of Agricultural Water in Oman:

A Potential Advantage in Higher-Value Crops

235

(20)

Abdallah Omezzine, Mohamed Chebaane and Lokman Zaibet

SECTION IV URBAN CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

12 Towards the Establishment of a Total Water Cycle

Management and Reuse Programme in the GCC Countries

255

(108)

Waleed K Al-Zubari

13 Conservation of Domestic Water Use for Jeddah City using Simulation Model

275

(20)

S. Awadalla, A. Allehaibi and M. I Abdulrazzak

SECTION V ISSUES AND POLICIES

14 Water Resources and Development in Saudi Arabia

295

(34)

Hamad M. H. Al-Sheikh

5 Water Legislation in the Republic of Yemen

329

(18)

Salahuddin Haddash

16 Agriculture, Water Scarcity and Gulf Development2 Strategies

347

(16)

Kamil A. Mahdi

17 Impact of the Pattern of Growth in Oil Economies

on the Depletion of Water Resources: The Case of Qatar

363

(10)

Ali Khalifa Al-Kuwari

Panel Discussion

373

(4)

List of Contributors

377

(4)

Glossary

381

(4)

Index

385

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