Workshop Programme
Sunday, 17 October 1999
Arrival of Participants
Monday, 18 October 1999
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Paper Submission
OPENING CEREMONY
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome Remarks by Dr. Houcine Khatteli, Director General IRA
9:10 - 9:20 Speech by the Representative of the Ministry of Environment
9:20 - 9:30 Speech by Prof. Genady N. Golubev,
Member, UNU Council; and Professor, Moscow State University
9:30 - 9:40 Speech by Prof. Iwao Kobori, Programme Advisor, UNU
9:40 - 9:50 Speech by H.E. Prof. Mohamed Ben Ahmed
(State Secretary for Scientific Research and Technology)
9:50 - 10:30 Introduction of Participants
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Visit to IRA, Médenine
12:30 - 14.00 Lunch
14:00 - 19:00 Field Trip Matmata / Douz
(Overnight Stay at Douz)
Tuesday, 19 October 1999
8:30 - 12:30 Continental Oasis Douz / Kébili
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Coastal Oasis Gabès
17:00 - 18:00 Travel Back to Médenine
Wednesday, 20 October 1999
Technical Session 1 - WATER MANAGEMENT IN ARID LANDS
Session Chair: Prof. Hans van Ginkel, Dr. Houcine Khatteli
8:30 - 8:40 Welcome Remarks by Prof. Hans van Ginkel, Rector UNU
8:40 - 9:05 Facing the Challenge of Water Resource Sustainability in Arid Lands - The Role of
Network Development and South-South Collaboration (Zafar Adeel)
9:05 - 9:30 Global Environment Facility - Opportunities for Combatting Desertification
(Nora Berrahmouni)
9:30 - 9:55 Integrated and Sustainable Management of Water Resources of the Niger River Basin in
the Sahel Area (Dieudonné Goudou)
9:55 - 10:30 Discussion on Technical Session 1
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
Technical Session 2 - REGIONAL APPROACHES TO WATER MANAGEMENT
Session Chair: Prof. Iwao Kobori, Dr. Theib Oweis
10:50 - 11:15 Water Management Problems in the Arid Zones of the Former USSR and
Russia (Genady N. Golubev)
11:15 - 11:40 Water Use and Management in Arid Zones of China (Wang Tao and Wu Wei)
11:40 - 12:05 Comparison and management of the desertification phenomenon on Tunisia
and Sardinia (Marini A. et al. )
12:05 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:25 Irrigation in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Iran: Present Status Challenges and
Suggestions (Hamid Siadat)
14:25 - 14:50 The Tunisian Experience in Soil and Water Conservation (Habib Farhat)
14:50 - 15:15 Water Management in Uzbekistan - Utilization and Protection of Water
Resources (Vladimir Savello)
15:15 - 15:40 ICARDA's Experience in Water Harvesting in the WANA Region (Theib Oweis)
15:40 - 16:20 Discussion on Technical Session 2
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
Technical Session 3A - MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES IN ARID LANDS
Session Chair: Dr. Mohamed Ennabli, Prof. Sayyed Kowsar
16:40 - 17:05 Environmental Impact Assessment and Remediation of Groundwater Mining
in Northern Libya (Saad A. Alghariani)
17:05 - 17:30 Management of Water Resources Aquifers in the Northern Sahara
(Ahmed Mamou)
17:30 - 17:55 Withdrawal Impacts on Piezometric and Chemical Characteristics of Ground Water in
the Arid Regions of Tunisia: The Case of Zeuss-Koutine Water Table
(Houcine Yahyaoui and Mohamed Ouessar)
17:55 - 18:20 Groundwater Utilization and Management in the State of Kuwait (Fawzia Al-Ruwaih)
Thursday, 21 October 1999
Technical Session 3B - MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES IN ARID LANDS
Session Chair: Dr. Mohamed Ennabli, Prof. Sayyed Kowsar
8:30 - 8:55 Management of Fossil Water Tables in the Arid Zones (Mohamed Ennabli)
8:55 - 9:20 Water Retention Characteristics of a Calcareous Soil from Iran: An Ecologically
Significant Property (Sayyed Ahang Kowsar)
9:20 - 9:45 Evaluation of unisolated oases in Algeria and Sahara
(Abderrahmane Benkhalifa and Iwao Kobori)
9:45 - 10:10 Seawater Intrusion into the Gaza Coastal Aquifer as an Example for Water and
Environment Inter-Linked Actions (Shaul Sorek, V. Borisov and A. Yakirevitch)
10:10 - 10:40 Discussion on Technical Session 3
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Technical Session 4 - INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN WATER MANAGEMENT
Session Chair: Dr. Genady Golubev, Dr. Ahmed Mamou
11:00 - 11:25 Wastewater Reuse in Water Planning and Management in Arid Area of Tunisia
(Rachid Boukchina and Noureddine Nasr)
11:25 - 11:50 New Techniques and Methods for the Control and Valuation of the Runoff Water in
Arid Regions (Chehbani Bellachheb)
11:50 - 12:15 A Decision-Making Tool for Optimizing Water Allocation and Management in the Arid
Regions: A Multiobjective and Compromise Programming Model Applied in the Oasis
Production Systems of Nefzaoua, Tunisia (Mongi Sghaier)
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:25 Crop Water Requirement for Water Resources Management in the Arid Regions
(Nétij Ben Mechlia)
14:25 - 14:50 Effects of Geothermal Water on Quality of Tomatoes Cultivated in the South of Tunisia
(Mansour Haddad)
14:50 - 15:30 Discussion on Technical Session 4
FIELD TRIP & RECEPTION
16:00-19:00 Field Trip to Koutine / Béni Khédache
19:30-22:00 Cultural Dinner
Friday, 22 October 1999
PANEL DISCUSSION
Session Chair: Dr. Houcine Khatteli, Dr. Zafar Adeel, Prof. Noureddine Akrimi
Panelists: All participants
9:00 - 9:30 Recap of Technical Sessions
9:30 - 10:30 Panel Discussion on Key Findings
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Formulation of Recommendations
CLOSING CEREMONY
12:00 - 13:00 Closing Remarks by Organizers
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 Afternoon in Jerba / Departure
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List of Participants
Dr. Zafar ADEEL
Environment and Sustainable Development
The United Nations University Headquarters
Mr. Ashraf Omer AFANEH
West Bank, Palestine
Mr. Munir AHMED
Water Resouces Research Institute
National Agricultural Research Centre
Islamabad, Pakistan
Prof. Saad A. ALGHARIANI
Tripoli, Libya
Prof. Fawzia AL-RUWAIH
Head, Geology Dept. Kuwait University
State of Kuwait
Prof. Ismail H. El BAGOURI
Centre for Environment & Development for the Arab Region & Europe (CEDARE)
Giza, Egypt
Mr. Sa'ad BAKRI
Ministry of Water and Irrigation
Amman, Jordon
Dr. Abderrahmane BENKHALIFA
Unite de Recherches sur les Zones Arides (WRZA)
Universite des Sciences et de Technologie Houari Boumediene - USHB
Alger, Algeria
Mr. Netij BEN MECHLIA
Institut National Agronomique de Tunis (INAT)
Tunis, Tunisia
Dr. Nora BERRAHMOUNI
Sustainable Development Advisor
UNDP - Algeria
Rachid BOUKCHINA
Institut des Regions Arides (IRA)
Nahal 6051 Gabès, Tunisia
Mr. Bellechheb CHEHBANI
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
4119 - Médenine- TUNISIA
Mr. Goudou DIEUDONNE
President
Energy and Environment for Rural development
Niamey, Niger
Mohamed ENNABLI
Director General
Institut Nation de Recherche Scientifique et Technique (INRST)
Tunis, Tunisia
Mr. Habib FARHAT
Director, Direction de Conservation des Eaux et des sols
Ministere de l'Agriculture
Tunis Belvédère, Tunisia
Prof. Genady N. GOLUBEV
Moscow State University
Faculty of Geography,
Moscow, Russian Federation
Mr. Mansour HADDAD
Institut des Regions Arides (IRA)
Nahal 6051 Gabès, Tunisia
Mr. Ali HAMDANE
Direction Denerale de Genie Rural
Ministrere de l'Agriculture
Tunis , Tunisia
Mr. Mouldi KARDOUS
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Dr. Houcine KHATTELI
Director General
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Prof. Iwao KOBORI
Environment and Sustainable Development
The United Nations University Headquarters
Prof. Sayyed Ahang KOWSAR
Fars Research Center for Natural Resources and Animal Husbandry
Shiraz, Iran
Ahmed MAMMOU
Direction Generale des Ressources en Eaux
Tunis, Tunisia
Mr. Kamel NAGAZ
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Noureddine NASR
Institut des Regions Arides (IRA)
Nahal, Tunisia
Mr. Rachid OUAHMED
UNESCO
Tunis, Tunisia
Mr. Mohamed OUESSAR
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Dr. Theib OWEIS
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Aleppo, Syria
Abderrazak ROMDHANE
Institut des Regions Arides (IRA)
Nahal 6051 Gabès, Tunisia
Mr. Vladimir SAVELLO
Chief of Water and Land Resources Protection
State Committee for Nature Protection
Republic of Uzbekistan
Mr. Mongi SGHAIER
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Dr. Hamid SIADAT
Soil and Water Research Institute,
Tehran, Iran
Prof. Shaul SOREK
Ben-Gurion University of the NEGEV
J. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Dryland Environmental Water Resources Unit
Sde Boker Campus 84990, Israel
Mr. Houcine TAAMALLAH
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Dr. Wang TAO
Director, Institute of Desert Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000
People's Republic of China
Mr. Mohamed THABET
Institut des Régions Arides (IRA)
Médenine- TUNISIA
Mohsen ZAIRI
Institut National en Genie Rural, des Eaux et des Forets
Tunis, Tunisia
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