Sustainable Water Management in Arid and Semi-arid Environments

Friday, October 22, 2004

Room 825 SWM, 1:00 PM

Dr. Wolfgang Kinzelbach

Institute for Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

The globally most wide spread sustainability problems in water use are overpumping aquifers, reduction of low flows of rivers, soil salination, drying up wetlands and pollution of aquifers. The issues and solutions are discussed and illustrated with three recent projects concerning the management of Okavango Delta (Botswana), the salination in Yangi Basin (China) and the overpumping of the North-west aquifer system.