Water Storage for Security and Resilience to Climate Change

Ancient Egyptians already realized the importance of water storage and they stored water in part of the depression to the west of the Nile valley known as “Lake Moeris”. By the end of the eighteen century, the Old Aswan Dam was built in 1902 to store flood water for use during the recession time of the river flow. Construction of the High Aswan Dam in 1965 allowed century water storage to expand perennial irrigation to all the cultivated land, generate electricity, reclaim new lands and secure supply for domestic and industrial uses. Egypt fixed share from Nile water and escalating demands of all uses and risk of climate change, calls for exploiting all opportunities for increasing water storage capacity above and below ground. Recently, storage capacity of Lake Nasser has been increased through directing extra flood water to Toshky Depressions, many dams have been built to capture and store flash flood water, artificial recharge of groundwater aquifer has been tested and piloted and feasibility of several other water storage opportunities have been thoroughly studied. In this session, speakers will review the implemented water storage projects and the research carried out to investigate feasibility of more storage options.
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 (ICELAND)

Conveners

  • Academy of Scientific Research and Technology

  • Water and Irrigation Research Council

Speakers

  • Prof. Mahmoud Abu Zeid / Egypt

  • Dr. Osama El Zaher / Egypt

  • Dr. Mohamed Dawood / United Arab Emirates

  • Prof. Tarek Abdel-Aziz / Egypt

  • Prof. Enas Abu-Talib / Egypt

  • Prof. Safwat Abdel-Dayem / Egypt