Importance of water resources in the potential expansion of cities and its scenarios Case study of Damascus


Abstract in English

The water resources and water availability is main source for understanding the threshold of Urbanism resources limitation; and any imbalance in water resources specifications reflexes a crises for cities expansion, population growth, and activities variety, mostly the planner depends on providing some general recommendations about water uses and suggesting simple strategies for correcting the deficiency without considering the needed consideration. That drew the research to study ers Damascus the water of in city water future which should be worried about, throughout a review on the former urban studies and look at the related balance water studies and the adopted future population increase scenarios, and its impacts on the expansion areas; in order to propose a system for planning, evaluating, and allocating the limited water resources, between the agricultural, urban, and environmental uses; whereas full integration between supply, demand, and water quality will be achieved , throughout compact indicators, manage building a model (Model) which will be a tool for integrated planning method of water resources; can be adopted to study the future needs of water in the short, medium and long terms.

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