Assessment of the socio-economic and agricultural aspects in water resources using GIS: a case study from Egypt

Maherzi K., Afify A., Motaleb M.A., Hamdy A.

The evaluation of the socio-economic and agricultural aspects related to any water resources system requires a detailed and diverse data. In a previous study, socio-economic and agricultural indicators were developed aiming at the evaluation of water resources current status in Egypt. The objective of the current study is to assess the status quo of the Egypt water resources system through evaluation indices for the agricultural, socio-economic and water aspects under a GIS platform. In addition, a GIS software application tool is developed to visually present the indicators and indices in a user-friendly way. The user-friendly interface was designed and implemented under the Arc view environment using the Avenue programming language. A case study for Egypt is also demonstrated via the developed tool. The results from the study show powerful capabilities of the developed GIS software in presenting the indicators and indices for each category (agricultural, socio-economic, and water), using the user interface. Finally the developed GIS tool and indicators can give the decision maker a good idea about the current status of the water resources system for the whole country.

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EGYPTE, EVALUATION, RESSOURCE EN EAU, SYSTEME D'INFORMATION GEOGRAPHIQUE

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Maherzi K., Afify A., Motaleb M.A., Hamdy A. Assessment of the socio-economic and agricultural aspects in water resources using GIS: a case study from Egypt. In : Lamaddalena N. (ed.), Bogliotti C. (ed.), Todorovic M. (ed.), Scardigno A. (ed.). Water saving in Mediterranean agriculture and future research needs [Vol. 3]. Bari : CIHEAM, 2007. p. 99-111. (Options Méditerranéennes : Série B. Etudes et Recherches; n. 56 Vol.III). Proceedings of the International Conference WASAMED Project (EU contract ICA3-CT-2002-10013), 2007/02/14-17, Valenzano (Italy). http://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/b56_3/00800207.pdf