Introduction to “Sustainable Water
Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt:
Dakhla Oasis”
Abdelazim M. Negm , El-Sayed E. Omran, Erina Iwasaki,
and Salwa F. Elbeih
Abstract The current chapter presents the main technical elements of the chapters
presented in the book “Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt”
to introduce the chapters to the audiences. It contains information on the following
topics covered in the book; activities and culture in the desert and their oases, geological and geomorphological aspects of Dakhla Oasis as a typical example. Also,
soil conditions, land use, climatic and meteorological factors, groundwater availability, usage and its management, irrigation management, water logging detection
and controlling issues.
Keywords Sustainability · Dakhla Oasis · New Valley · Environment · Remote
Sensing · Egypt · Agriculture · Water resources · Climate change · Wells · History
A. M. Negm (B)
Water and Water Structures Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering,
Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
e-mail: amnegm@zu.edu.eg
E.-S. E. Omran
Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt
Institute of African Research and Studies and Nile Basin Countries,
Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt
E.-S. E. Omran
e-mail: elsayed_ebaid@agr.suez.edu.eg; ee.omran@aswu.edu.eg
E. Iwasaki
Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
e-mail: iwasaki@sophia.ac.jp
S. F. Elbeih
Engineering Applications and Water Division, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space
Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
e-mail: saelbeih@narss.sci.eg; saelbeih@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
E. Iwasaki et al. (eds.), Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert,
Egypt: Dakhla Oasis, Earth and Environmental Sciences Library,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64005-7_1
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Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt:
Dakhla Oasis”
Abdelazim M. Negm , El-Sayed E. Omran, Erina Iwasaki,
and Salwa F. Elbeih
Abstract The current chapter presents the main technical elements of the chapters
presented in the book “Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt”
to introduce the chapters to the audiences. It contains information on the following
topics covered in the book; activities and culture in the desert and their oases, geological and geomorphological aspects of Dakhla Oasis as a typical example. Also,
soil conditions, land use, climatic and meteorological factors, groundwater availability, usage and its management, irrigation management, water logging detection
and controlling issues.
Keywords Sustainability · Dakhla Oasis · New Valley · Environment · Remote
Sensing · Egypt · Agriculture · Water resources · Climate change · Wells · History
A. M. Negm (B)
Water and Water Structures Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering,
Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
e-mail: amnegm@zu.edu.eg
E.-S. E. Omran
Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt
Institute of African Research and Studies and Nile Basin Countries,
Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt
E.-S. E. Omran
e-mail: elsayed_ebaid@agr.suez.edu.eg; ee.omran@aswu.edu.eg
E. Iwasaki
Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
e-mail: iwasaki@sophia.ac.jp
S. F. Elbeih
Engineering Applications and Water Division, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space
Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
e-mail: saelbeih@narss.sci.eg; saelbeih@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
E. Iwasaki et al. (eds.), Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert,
Egypt: Dakhla Oasis, Earth and Environmental Sciences Library,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64005-7_1
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