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Water Resources, State of Play, and Development Prospects in the Steppe Region of Naâma (Western Algeria)

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Water Resources in Algeria - Part II

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Abstract

The Naâma region contains significant underground water potential that has been little exploited, especially in the steppe plains around the chotts (El Chergui and El Gharbi), in the Naâma syncline. It has relatively large water resources and indeed benefits from many natural assets: heavy rains, a mountain water tower with large infiltration areas and snow-capped peaks, perennial rivers, and large underground aquifers continental intercalary (Albien).

The water resources of the department are subject to constraints that affect the quantitative and qualitative potential of the waters.

This integrated water management approach will contribute to sound planning taking into account the various social, economic, and environmental interests. It emphasizes the participation of stakeholders at all levels in the development of legal texts and emphasizes good governance and effective institutional and regulatory arrangements to promote more equitable and sustainable decisions. The approach must be implemented using the economic, institutional, and technical tools to increase the efficiency of irrigation, improve the operation and maintenance of perimeters, improve drainage, and reduce soil salinity.

Integrated management of water resources must be learned from the perspective of sustainable development, to control its scarcity and excess; to ensure the supply of drinking water, agricultural, and industrial; and to preserve the quality of the environment.

Indeed, it should be noted that the water resources of the department are appreciable but require to be evaluated in a precise way to ensure their use in a rational and sustainable manner. Water, which is a resource that is both limited and vital, is increasingly sought after and raises problems of sharing between the different economic and social users: between the supply of drinking water and irrigation, between water and water and irrigation and industry, and between urban and rural populations.

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Abbreviations

ADBADF:

African Development Bank African Development Fund

DA:

Algerian dinars

DE:

Direction of the Environment

DPPM:

Direction of Program Planning and Monitoring

DWR:

Direction of Water Resources

DWS:

Drinking water supply

IWRM:

Integrated Water Resources Management Approach

MWR:

Ministry of Water Resources

NAHR:

National Agency of Hydraulic Resources

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  1. Department of Nature and Life Sciences, Institute of Science and Technology, Salhi Ahmed University Center of Naâma (Algeria), Naâma, Algeria

    Abdelkrim Benaradj & Hafidha Boucherit

  2. Department of Hydroelectric, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tahri Mohamed University of Béchar (Algeria), Béchar, Algeria

    Touhami Merzougui

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  1. Department of Water and Water Structures Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Abdelazim M. Negm

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Khemis Miliana, Algiers, Algeria

    Abdelkader Bouderbala

  3. Department of Natural and Life Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Natural and Life Sciences, University of Tebessa, Tebessa, Algeria

    Haroun Chenchouni

  4. Catalan Institute for Water Research, ICRA, Girona, Spain

    Damià Barceló

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Benaradj, A., Boucherit, H., Merzougui, T. (2020). Water Resources, State of Play, and Development Prospects in the Steppe Region of Naâma (Western Algeria). In: Negm, A.M., Bouderbala, A., Chenchouni, H., Barceló, D. (eds) Water Resources in Algeria - Part II. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 98. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2020_537

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