Title:
Inventory of shared water resources in western Asia / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) ; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR).
Main Entry:
United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
Bundesanstalt fèur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe.
Publisher:
United Nations Publications,
Publication Date:
2013.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9789211283617 (pbk.)
9211283612 (pbk.)
Subject:
Water-supply -- Middle East.
Groundwater -- Middle East.
Contents:
Overview -- Overview and methodology: surface water -- Euphrates River basin -- Shared tributaries of the Euphrates River -- Tigris River basin -- Shared tributaries of the Tigris River -- Shatt Al Arab, Karkheh and Karun Rivers -- Jordan River basin -- Orontes River basin -- Nahr El Kabir basin -- Qweik River basin -- Overview and methodology: groundwater --Saq-Ram aquifer system (west) -- Wajid Aquifer system -- Wasia-Biyadh-Aruma aquifer system (south): Tawila-Mahra/cretaceous sands -- Wasia-Biyadh-Aruma aquifer system (north): Sakaka-Rutba -- Umm er Radhuma-Dammam aquifer system (south): Rub' al Khali -- Umm er Radhuma-Dammam aquifer (centre): Gulf -- Umm er Radhuma-Dammam aquifer system (north): Widyan-Salman -- Tawl-Quaternary aquifer system: Wadi Sirhan basin -- Anti-Lebanon -- Western aquifer basin -- Coastal aquifer basin -- Basalt aquifer system (west): Yarmouk basin -- Basalt aquifer system (south): Azraq-Dhuleil basin -- Taurus-Zagros -- Jezira Tertiary limestone aquifer system -- Neogene aquifer system (north-west), Upper and lower Fars: Jezira basin -- Neogene aquifer system (south-east), Dibdibba-Kuwait group: Dibdibba Delta basin.
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