Engenharia de Sistemas de Irrigação e Drenagem

Water Supply Prediction for the Next 10 Years in Algeria: Risks and Challenges

Abstract

Eddine ARS and Chibane Brahim

Water is the source of life, with population growth, environmental problems and water shortages, water resources management become a major priority for the Algerian government.

The environmental problems and the climate change context apply a high pressure on the policy of groundwater and surface waters management.

Future simulation of water demand is a way for prediction and prevention against climatic and environmental risks through the establishment of real and feasible solutions for better exploitation of water resources. In this study we simulate the future demand of water to supply population need, in the Algerian territory at the horizon of 2020, to show critical situation of lack of water, under a climate change situation. According to the results we are arriving at the conclusion that to solve the continuous arising demand of water we must return to the used unconventional water resources.