Detecting and Controlling the Waterlogging in Dakhla Basin
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environmental hazards and water level decline. The main problems are environmental
threats such as salinization, not the amount of water available.
Further research is needed to better examine the many different problems, and
good management strategies have to be done in order to realize growth in the desert. If
not, Dakhla Basin area could end up highly waterlogged as an unsustainable project.
Also, looking at the political, economic and sociological dimensions of food shortages and agricultural production would be an interesting approach to further research
into the growth of the basin and agricultural expansion in particular. Finally, waterlogging and soil salinization are a significant threat to housing and oasis development.
An extensive waterlogging threat existed because when developing new agricultural
areas, the geomorphological and management setting was not recognized.
The future direction could be the data. The data on water management in many
oases are very limited. It was very difficult to find basic information about population
numbers, land use types of agricultural use and land distribution, the agricultural
system, which was interesting for us, but it could not be found. There is no public
access to this information or that the data simply does not exist. There are some
papers on hydrogeological results, of course, but they are often very detailed and do
not address fundamental water potential questions.
References
Abd El All E, Ahmed K, Taha R, Salah O (2015) Geophysical contribution to evaluate the subsurface
structural setting using magnetic and geothermal data in El-Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert,
Egypt. NRIAG J Astron Geophys 4:236–248
Adriansen H (2009) Land reclamation in Egypt: A study of life in the new lands. Geoforum 40:664–
674
Allam A, Saaf E, Dawoud M (2002) Desalination of brackish groundwater in Egypt. Desalination
152:19–26
Bakhbakhi M (2002) Hydrogeological framework of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.
Regional Coordinator Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) Programme, Proceedings of
the International Workshop, Tripoli, Libya 2–4 June 2002, 178
Brandt J (2013) Irrigation technologies and agricultural expansion into the New Valley, Egypt.
Semester project. Module: Geography. University of Roskilde
Brookes I (1993) Geomorphology and Quaternary geology of the Dakhla Oasis Region. Egypt Quat
Sci Rev 12:529–552
Cassandra V (2002) The Western Desert of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press
Churcher CS, Kleindienst MR, Schwarcz HP (1999) Faunal remains from a Middle Pleistocene
lacustrine marl in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeogr
Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 154:301–312
Ebraheem AM, Riad S, Wycisk P, Sefelnasr AM (2004) A local-scale groundwater flow model for
groundwater resources management in Dakhla Oasis, SW Egypt. Hydrogeol J 12:714–722
El-Ramady H, El-Marsafawy S, and Lewis LN (2013) Sustainable agriculture and climate changes
in Egypt. In: Lichtfouse E (Ed) Sustainable agriculture reviews. Springer, Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, p 12
Embabi, N. (1967). A geomorphologic study of Kharga Oases Depression, the Western Desert,
Egypt. Dissertation, Bristol University
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environmental hazards and water level decline. The main problems are environmental
threats such as salinization, not the amount of water available.
Further research is needed to better examine the many different problems, and
good management strategies have to be done in order to realize growth in the desert. If
not, Dakhla Basin area could end up highly waterlogged as an unsustainable project.
Also, looking at the political, economic and sociological dimensions of food shortages and agricultural production would be an interesting approach to further research
into the growth of the basin and agricultural expansion in particular. Finally, waterlogging and soil salinization are a significant threat to housing and oasis development.
An extensive waterlogging threat existed because when developing new agricultural
areas, the geomorphological and management setting was not recognized.
The future direction could be the data. The data on water management in many
oases are very limited. It was very difficult to find basic information about population
numbers, land use types of agricultural use and land distribution, the agricultural
system, which was interesting for us, but it could not be found. There is no public
access to this information or that the data simply does not exist. There are some
papers on hydrogeological results, of course, but they are often very detailed and do
not address fundamental water potential questions.
References
Abd El All E, Ahmed K, Taha R, Salah O (2015) Geophysical contribution to evaluate the subsurface
structural setting using magnetic and geothermal data in El-Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert,
Egypt. NRIAG J Astron Geophys 4:236–248
Adriansen H (2009) Land reclamation in Egypt: A study of life in the new lands. Geoforum 40:664–
674
Allam A, Saaf E, Dawoud M (2002) Desalination of brackish groundwater in Egypt. Desalination
152:19–26
Bakhbakhi M (2002) Hydrogeological framework of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.
Regional Coordinator Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) Programme, Proceedings of
the International Workshop, Tripoli, Libya 2–4 June 2002, 178
Brandt J (2013) Irrigation technologies and agricultural expansion into the New Valley, Egypt.
Semester project. Module: Geography. University of Roskilde
Brookes I (1993) Geomorphology and Quaternary geology of the Dakhla Oasis Region. Egypt Quat
Sci Rev 12:529–552
Cassandra V (2002) The Western Desert of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press
Churcher CS, Kleindienst MR, Schwarcz HP (1999) Faunal remains from a Middle Pleistocene
lacustrine marl in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeogr
Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 154:301–312
Ebraheem AM, Riad S, Wycisk P, Sefelnasr AM (2004) A local-scale groundwater flow model for
groundwater resources management in Dakhla Oasis, SW Egypt. Hydrogeol J 12:714–722
El-Ramady H, El-Marsafawy S, and Lewis LN (2013) Sustainable agriculture and climate changes
in Egypt. In: Lichtfouse E (Ed) Sustainable agriculture reviews. Springer, Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, p 12
Embabi, N. (1967). A geomorphologic study of Kharga Oases Depression, the Western Desert,
Egypt. Dissertation, Bristol University