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Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertainty
| Resumo: | Addressing water use efficiency in the Middle East is challenging due to the limited water resources availability, geopolitical complexity, climatic conditions, and a variety of managerial issues. Groundwater is the dominant water resource for Palestinians amid their inability to access other natural water resources. Jericho Governorate constitutes most of the Palestinian part of the Jordan Valley and represents a high economic significance for the nation, especially in agriculture. This made the agricultural water use in Jericho as the main user of the Eastern Aquifer Basin (EAB). The objective of this doctoral work is to assess the efficiency of the agricultural water use in Jericho, which we defined as the Water Use System (WUS), and its interaction with the main source, the Eastern Aquifer Basin (EAB), using the Sustainable Efficiency (Sefficiency) method. In addition, we aim, through developing scenarios, to understand the impacts of the uncertainty associated with climate change on our WUS’s performance and its water variables. Sefficiency is a composite multi-level efficiency indicator that is based on water balance and considers the usefulness criterion of the WUS’s variables. As Sefficiency requires, the analysis was not limited to the quantities of the different water path types within our WUS, but it also considered their quality and beneficial weights. We surveyed local farmers, interviewed a water manager, and collected an extensive dataset to achieve an understanding of the water paths dynamics and conclude our water balance schematic. Besides, we simulated six different scenarios under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs), namely RCP2.6 and RCP6.0, corresponding to the projected changes in temperature and precipitation in three intervals (years 2025, 2055, and 2090) to assess the impact of climate change on water use efficiency. The results demonstrated that: 1. Improving the quality of returns has a great positive impact. 2. Increasing water abstractions is not beneficial if it is not linked to an increase in yield production. 3. Precipitation rates can influence water use efficiency. 4. More careful treatment of the unwanted plants and a selection of high socio-economic value crops would enhance Sefficiency. Finally, the results of the developed scenarios under climate change projections indicated a minor impact on the efficiency itself, since the system is already operating under scarce water conditions; however, it showed an anticipated significant impact on the sustainability of the main source, EAB. |
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| Autores principais: | Tuqan, Nasser A. S. |
| Assunto: | Eastern Aquifer Basin irrigation management Sefficiency water crisis in Palestine water use efficiency Eastern Aquifer Basin eficiência do uso da água escassez da água na Palestina gestão de irrigação Sefficiency |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
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| author | Tuqan, Nasser A. S. |
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| datacite.date.Accepted.fl_str_mv | 2020-11-12T00:00:00Z |
| datacite.date.available.fl_str_mv | 2022-04-20T09:19:03Z |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Tuqan, Nasser A. S. |
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| description | Addressing water use efficiency in the Middle East is challenging due to the limited water resources availability, geopolitical complexity, climatic conditions, and a variety of managerial issues. Groundwater is the dominant water resource for Palestinians amid their inability to access other natural water resources. Jericho Governorate constitutes most of the Palestinian part of the Jordan Valley and represents a high economic significance for the nation, especially in agriculture. This made the agricultural water use in Jericho as the main user of the Eastern Aquifer Basin (EAB). The objective of this doctoral work is to assess the efficiency of the agricultural water use in Jericho, which we defined as the Water Use System (WUS), and its interaction with the main source, the Eastern Aquifer Basin (EAB), using the Sustainable Efficiency (Sefficiency) method. In addition, we aim, through developing scenarios, to understand the impacts of the uncertainty associated with climate change on our WUS’s performance and its water variables. Sefficiency is a composite multi-level efficiency indicator that is based on water balance and considers the usefulness criterion of the WUS’s variables. As Sefficiency requires, the analysis was not limited to the quantities of the different water path types within our WUS, but it also considered their quality and beneficial weights. We surveyed local farmers, interviewed a water manager, and collected an extensive dataset to achieve an understanding of the water paths dynamics and conclude our water balance schematic. Besides, we simulated six different scenarios under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs), namely RCP2.6 and RCP6.0, corresponding to the projected changes in temperature and precipitation in three intervals (years 2025, 2055, and 2090) to assess the impact of climate change on water use efficiency. The results demonstrated that: 1. Improving the quality of returns has a great positive impact. 2. Increasing water abstractions is not beneficial if it is not linked to an increase in yield production. 3. Precipitation rates can influence water use efficiency. 4. More careful treatment of the unwanted plants and a selection of high socio-economic value crops would enhance Sefficiency. Finally, the results of the developed scenarios under climate change projections indicated a minor impact on the efficiency itself, since the system is already operating under scarce water conditions; however, it showed an anticipated significant impact on the sustainability of the main source, EAB. |
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| spelling | engporAddressing water use efficiency in the Middle East is challenging due to the limited water resources availability, geopolitical complexity, climatic conditions, and a variety of managerial issues. Groundwater is the dominant water resource for Palestinians amid their inability to access other natural water resources. Jericho Governorate constitutes most of the Palestinian part of the Jordan Valley and represents a high economic significance for the nation, especially in agriculture. This made the agricultural water use in Jericho as the main user of the Eastern Aquifer Basin (EAB). The objective of this doctoral work is to assess the efficiency of the agricultural water use in Jericho, which we defined as the Water Use System (WUS), and its interaction with the main source, the Eastern Aquifer Basin (EAB), using the Sustainable Efficiency (Sefficiency) method. In addition, we aim, through developing scenarios, to understand the impacts of the uncertainty associated with climate change on our WUS’s performance and its water variables. Sefficiency is a composite multi-level efficiency indicator that is based on water balance and considers the usefulness criterion of the WUS’s variables. As Sefficiency requires, the analysis was not limited to the quantities of the different water path types within our WUS, but it also considered their quality and beneficial weights. We surveyed local farmers, interviewed a water manager, and collected an extensive dataset to achieve an understanding of the water paths dynamics and conclude our water balance schematic. Besides, we simulated six different scenarios under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs), namely RCP2.6 and RCP6.0, corresponding to the projected changes in temperature and precipitation in three intervals (years 2025, 2055, and 2090) to assess the impact of climate change on water use efficiency. The results demonstrated that: 1. Improving the quality of returns has a great positive impact. 2. Increasing water abstractions is not beneficial if it is not linked to an increase in yield production. 3. Precipitation rates can influence water use efficiency. 4. More careful treatment of the unwanted plants and a selection of high socio-economic value crops would enhance Sefficiency. Finally, the results of the developed scenarios under climate change projections indicated a minor impact on the efficiency itself, since the system is already operating under scarce water conditions; however, it showed an anticipated significant impact on the sustainability of the main source, EAB.application/pdfporAssessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertaintyTuqan, Nasser A. S.Haie, NaimHostingInstitutionOrganizationalUniversidade do Minhoe-mailmailto:repositorium@usdb.uminho.ptrepositorium@usdb.uminho.ptURNurn:tid:1016430712022-04-20T09:19:03Z2020-11-122020-112020-11-12T00:00:00ZHandlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/77057http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2open accessEastern Aquifer Basinirrigation managementSefficiencywater crisis in Palestinewater use efficiencyEastern Aquifer Basineficiência do uso da águaescassez da água na Palestinagestão de irrigaçãoSefficiency5856289 bytesliteraturehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06doctoral thesis2020-11-12http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2application/pdffulltexthttps://prod-dspace.uminho.pt/bitstreams/f1030e1b-4018-4211-9eb4-e75d8768656b/download |
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| title | Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertainty |
| title_full | Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertainty |
| title_fullStr | Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertainty |
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| title_short | Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertainty |
| title_sort | Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency under climate change uncertainty |
| topic | Eastern Aquifer Basin irrigation management Sefficiency water crisis in Palestine water use efficiency Eastern Aquifer Basin eficiência do uso da água escassez da água na Palestina gestão de irrigação Sefficiency |
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