Irrigation management water in the lower Algerian Sahara: The paradoxical case of the palm grove of Ouargla
Amrani, Khaled
Irrigation management water in the lower Algerian Sahara: The paradoxical case of the palm grove of Ouargla - 2021.
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In 1998 there appeared an article by Marc Cote, a French geographer: “les oasis malades de trop d’eau”. It pointed to excess water resulting from excessive irrigation and inappropriate practices which aggravate the situation by poor management. The situation has hardly improved in more than 20 years. Worse still, the palm grove is deteriorating because of what was supposed to be a development factor: water. The paper reviews the logic underlying the current management approaches by seeking to explain the reasons for such malfunctions.
Irrigation management water in the lower Algerian Sahara: The paradoxical case of the palm grove of Ouargla - 2021.
87
In 1998 there appeared an article by Marc Cote, a French geographer: “les oasis malades de trop d’eau”. It pointed to excess water resulting from excessive irrigation and inappropriate practices which aggravate the situation by poor management. The situation has hardly improved in more than 20 years. Worse still, the palm grove is deteriorating because of what was supposed to be a development factor: water. The paper reviews the logic underlying the current management approaches by seeking to explain the reasons for such malfunctions.
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