recent droughts and indiscriminate use of ground water for agriculture, is the main problems of the especially desert country.water crisis has gripped all of country plains, and due tothe reduction of surface water resources and successive droughts, illegal exploitation of ground water resources is increasing.the knowledge of the water balance plains can be helped in the water resources managem...

Targeting of agricultural conservation practices to the most effective locations in a watershed can promote wise use of conservation funds to protect surface waters from agricultural nonpoint source pollution. A spatial optimization procedure using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool was used to target six widely used conservation practices, namely no-tillage, cereal rye cover crops (CC), filter...

Most of Saudi Arabia is arid and water resources are limited; it has experienced extensive and rapid developments in industrial, agricultural, domestic and construction sectors during the last two decades. Saudi Arabia follows the sacred principles of the Islamic law ‘Shari’a’, whereby water is considered the common entitlement of all people, and the main component of the sustainability of the ...

Frequent droughts and their consequences result in the loss of groundwater, the deficiency of nutrients, the drying of surface water resources, and substantially more exploitation of the groundwater resources, which, altogether, cause the mobilization of saline waters to groundwater tables. This will impair the capacity of the aquifers and the quality of the water. The VIKOR method was applied ...

khuzestan province is considered as one of iran's agricultural hubs, food production andsupply make it necessary to use water and soil resources to the optimum potential.agricultural drainage waters, with their high volume and decentralized nature, are the mainsource of return flow to the karun river. these sources include pesticides and nutrients(nitrate, phosphate) and have high pollutio...

Understanding the interaction between soil, vegetation and atmosphere processes and groundwater dynamics is of paramount importance in water resources planning and management in many practical applications. This is the case, for example, of the most important agricultural and industrial area in Italy, the Padana Plain, where intensive exploitation of groundwater for domestic and industrial supp...