Overview
Documents a precise pattern to assess the water security of a given country
Discusses the Tunisian water situation as a typical case for water future in other arid countries
Presents a first comprehensive vision of water resources on the scale of a nation
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About this book
This book shows how the change of water paradigm has become urgent, and provides evidence for new policies that expand water balance to green and virtual water. The issue of water security concerns drinking water supply but also food safety, linked to agricultural policy. Both rain-fed and irrigated agriculture play complementary roles in food security, and the water issue implies a holistic view of water resources. This view constitutes the book's backstory. The reader will find original ideas that can be applied everywhere because the example of Tunisia is typically a basis to illustrate a universally prevalent situation. The book deals with other important issues: desalination, wastewater recycling, water quality, groundwater overdraft, water savings, governance, knowledge valuing, education, information: upgrading the whole water systems for the future implies emancipation of the whole society.
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About the authors
Jamel Chahed is a hydraulics engineer and Doctor es sciences, Professor at the National Engineering School of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar. His work focuses on transfers in industrial and environmental fluid systems, atmospheric dispersion, water governance and water management. His research has appeared as articles, books, book chapters, conference acts in specialized literature such as hydrology, water resources management, hydraulics, turbulence and transfers, environmental engineering. He actively contributed to the development of long-term vision for water security with a thematic focus on holistic water balance assessment. He has been involved in number of national and international academic research and technical programs. As visiting professor, associate researcher or guest speaker he joined number of international research teams at academic institutes, research laboratories and R&D centres.
Abdelkader Hamdane is graduated from Institut National Agronomique de Paris (1971), and Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et Forêts de Paris (1973). He is general engineer, formerly General Director of the Medjerda Valley Development Company, General Director of Rural Engineering and Water Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Tunisia. He has been member of several public companies boards operating in the field of water, and led several assessment missions in scientific and technical research institutions. He was a short-term professor of irrigation and drainage at the National Agronomic Institute of Tunis and the National Engineering School of Tunis. He is currently a Scientific Advisor at the National Agronomic Institute of Tunis, University of Carthage, involved in many national and international research programs, and consultant on water management in international organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Water Security
Book Subtitle: Case Study of an Arid Country: Tunisia
Authors: Mustapha Besbes, Jamel Chahed, Abdelkader Hamdane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75499-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75498-7Published: 11 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09247-4Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75499-4Published: 31 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 272
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Sustainable Development, Hydrogeology