Surface Water in Jenin Governorate-Palestine
Very little attention is normally given to surface water in Palestine. This paper focuses on this subject by studying surface water in Jenin Governorate, which is one of the major governorates in the country.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Fathi Zereini • Wolfgang Jaeschke (Eds.)
Water in the Middle East and in North Africa Resources, Protection and Management With 136 Figures and 40 Tables
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PD Dr. habil. Fathi Zereini University of Frankfurt Institute of Mineralogy Department of Environmental Analytics Georg-Voigt-Str.16 60054 Frankfurt, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Professor Dr. Wolfgang Jaeschke University of Frankfurt Center for Environmental Research (ZUF) Georg-Voigt -Stra6e 14 60325 Frankfurt, Germany E-mail: [email protected] ISBN 978-3-642-05862-2 ISBN 978-3-662-10866-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-10866-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Applied For A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in die Deutsche Nationalbibliographie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at . This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitations, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH.
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Foreword
Freshwater is the most precious and valuable natural resource essential for all kind of life on the land surface. Especially man depend on the availability and quality of the water, it is vital for the socio-economic growth of societies and nations as well as for the sustainability of the environment. Freshwater resources are not distributed in an equal way over the continents. Regions with surplus facing areas with shortage or even lack of water. From their nature arid and semi-arid areas are characterized by scarcity of water with all the affiliated unfavourable attributes. In the Middle East this lack of sufficient water coupled with the high growth rates of population constitutes serious water problems which has become e real political issue. The German-Arabic Society for Environmental Studies, Frankfurt, in
