Managed Aquifer Recharge in Mena Countries: Developments, Applications, Challenges, Strategies, and Sustainability

This book presents an updated state-of-the-art for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for MENA regions. MENA regions are home to 6% of the world’s population but only possess 1.4% of its water resources with almost absolute scarcity. Groundwater is the primary source of water in 54% of MENA countries. Therefore, the MENA regions seek sustainable management solutions amid its arid climate and rising demands from urbanization and agriculture. MAR aims to help sustain groundwater resources. This book explores MAR as a strategic approach to reducing water security by enhancing groundwater supplies. Utilizing techniques such as soil aquifer recharge, aquifer storage and recovery, rainfall harvesting, and riverbank filtration. The presented case studies offer deep insights into MAR methods, their implementation, and MAR technologies. The beneficiaries of the book include postgraduate students, academics, policymakers, and practitioners in water resources.

Dr.-Eng. Mustafa El-Rawy is an associate professor of water resources at the Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Egypt, since 2018. He received his Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Water Resources Engineering in 2013. He received his M.Sc. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Water Resources Engineering (IUPWARE Programme) in 2008. He worked as a research scientist at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, on the project of ＂Managed Aquifer Recharge using Treated Wastewater in Different Geological Setting of MENA Countries＂ (2014-2015). He has been awarded with a master scholarship from the VLIR-UOS, Belgium (2006-2008), a Ph.D. scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window (EMECW) Programme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium (2009-2013), a postdoctoral fellowship from Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman (2014-2015), and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Egyptian Ministry of HighEducation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (October 2015-March 2016). His research experience includes Water Resources Management, Groundwater Modeling, Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction, Water Quality, and impacts of land use and climate change on groundwater systems. He is the author or the co-author of many journal papers with impact factor, books, and chapters in books. Dr. El-Rawy is a reviewer of several international scientific journals that indexed in Scopus and WoS.

Prof. Dr. Abdelazim Negm is a professor of Hydraulics at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, since 2004. He got his Ph.D. in 1992 from Zagazig University (ZU) and his M.Sc. from Ain shams University in the year 1990. He was the vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering of ZU from 12/2008 to 12/2011 and was the head of the Environmental Engineering Department at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt, from October 2013 to March 2016. He participated in several international projects since 2006 until now. He published more than 300 papers in national and international journals and conferences and contributed in more than 50 chapters. Some of his papers were awarded prizes of the best papers. He is the editor of several volumes at the Springer Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Series (HEC Series). Two volumes were published in May 2017, and 10 volumes were published in the year 2019. Additionally, several volumes will be published during the year 2020. He is a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences and a member of the organizing committee of others and participated in more than 80 conferences as well. He delivered several keynote talks at international conferences. Prof. Negm is a reviewer of more than international scientific journals that indexed in Scopus and WoS. He is the editor-in-chief of EIJEST and an associate editor of the EMJEI, which is publishedby Springer. Also, he is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial board of the famous Springer Series titled ＂Handbook of Environmental Chemistry＂ since 2019 and the vice head of the permanent scientific committee on Water Resources (51b), the supreme council of Egyptian Universities, Egypt. Prof. Negm is listed in the most famous and prestigious directories in the world including the American Biographical Institute (ABI), Inc., USA, ＂Marquis Who’s Who in the World＂, 27th Ed., 2010, USA, until now and in IBC’s 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, since 2011 until present.