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Gis As A Decision Support System For Siting Water Harvesting Ponds In The Basalt Aquifer/Ne Jordan

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  • RIDA AL-ADAMAT

    (Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Al Al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan 25113, Jordan)

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Water harvesting is a must and not an option for Jordan in the near future. The available water resources are limited and barely satisfy the current growing demands. In the basalt aquifer/NE of Jordan, there is a possibility to construct water harvesting ponds to assist the livestock owners in villages and towns in watering their livestock which will ease the pressure on the existing water resources. This research was based on the use of GIS techniques to select the optimum sites for water harvesting ponds within the basalt aquifer. Buffering, Union and arithmetic operations in GIS were all used in analysing the data based on different socio-economic and physical criteria. The outcomes of the GIS analysis resulted in selecting 72 suitable sites within the study area. These sites could be used as a guideline to the decision makers in Jordan when they decided to establish a water harvesting pond in the area. This will save time and money which could be directed to the construction of the actual water harvesting ponds.

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  • Rida Al-Adamat, 2008. "Gis As A Decision Support System For Siting Water Harvesting Ponds In The Basalt Aquifer/Ne Jordan," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 10(02), pages 189-206.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:10:y:2008:i:02:n:s1464333208003020
    DOI: 10.1142/S1464333208003020
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    1. Khamis Naba Sayl & Nur Shazwani Muhammad & Zaher Mundher Yaseen & Ahmed El-shafie, 2016. "Estimation the Physical Variables of Rainwater Harvesting System Using Integrated GIS-Based Remote Sensing Approach," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(9), pages 3299-3313, July.
    2. Ray-Shyan Wu & Gabriela Lucia Letona Molina & Fiaz Hussain, 2018. "Optimal Sites Identification for Rainwater Harvesting in Northeastern Guatemala by Analytical Hierarchy Process," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 32(12), pages 4139-4153, September.
    3. Delaney, R.G. & Blackburn, G.A. & Whyatt, J.D. & Folkard, A.M., 2022. "SiteFinder: A geospatial scoping tool to assist the siting of external water harvesting structures," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 272(C).
    4. Vema, Vamsikrishna & Sudheer, K.P. & Chaubey, I., 2019. "Fuzzy inference system for site suitability evaluation of water harvesting structures in rainfed regions," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 82-93.
    5. Ali Akbar Jamali & Reza Ghorbani Kalkhajeh, 2020. "Spatial Modeling Considering valley’s Shape and Rural Satisfaction in Check Dams Site Selection and Water Harvesting in the Watershed," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 34(10), pages 3331-3344, August.

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    Jordan; basalt; harvesting; ponds; GIS;
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