MANAGEMENT OF SCARCE WATER RESOURCES : A Middle Eastern Experience, HB BEST-SELLER

The aim of this book is to provide a practical approach to a wide variety of water related topics. These explore the problems that arid and semi-arid countries face in relation to water resources and water management, using recent case studies as a result of recent and past experience to explore the possible solutions, as well to provide a framework/guideline to assist the practitioner in resolving these problems. The book contains case studies and practical guidelines developed from many years of project management, private sector participation and Ministerial level government appointment in both Water and Irrigated Agriculture. Many solutions were developed for specific problems/tasks, in particular, lessons learned from Management Contracts of water utilities.

Dr. Hazim K. El-Naser, currently a member of Jordan's House of Representatives, is the former Minister of Water and Irrigation and Minister of Agriculture of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where he was involved in developing long-term plans for Jordan's Water Sector and managing a number of projects.

Before joining the ministry, he worked in research and lectured at the Water Research and Study Center-of the University of Jordan, and in Germany at the Department of Applied Hydrogeology-University of Wuerzburg, and at the Institute for Hydrochemistry and Hydrology-the Technical University of Munich, and was a Groundwater Modeling Expert with the German Consultants Buro fur Geotechnik und Umweltfragen (BGU), and WATEC Ingenieurgesellschaft für Hydrogeologie und Hydrochemie in Germany.