Flash Flood Management and Harvesting Via Groundwater Recharging in Wadi Systems: An Integrative Approach of Remote Sensing and Direct Current Resistivity Techniques

Attwa, Mohamed; Ragab, Dina; Bastawesy, Mohammed El; El-fattah, A.M. Abd

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29635-3_7

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“…Flash floods are dangerous because they strike with no advance warning after rainfall events (El-Afandi and Morsy 2020; Fathy et al 2019;Atwa 2020). They threaten the lives and livelihoods of people as well as their assets and properties (Parvin et al 2016;Abdeldayem et al 2020;Kumar et al 2018).…”

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Ecohydrology and flood risk management under climate vulnerability in relation to the sustainable development goals (SDGs): a case study in Nagaa Mobarak Village, Egypt

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This article aims to provide a thorough assessment of water quality and quantity incorporating the estimation of future patterns as a result of climate change from economic, environmental and social perspectives. Its scope extends from studying the physical parameters and rainfall patterns to maintaining an environmental flow with a better water quality using ecohydrological techniques. The village of Nagaa Mobarak in Souhag, Egypt, is taken as a case study being in a critical location that is vulnerable to flash floods. This paper managed to quantify change in water quantity and quality due to the impacts of flash floods and climate change. Several traditional engineering alternatives are proposed for flood management such as constructing a dam, a storage pond and a routing channel to the nearest water body; as well as non-traditional ecohydrological alternatives such as constructing a dam with vegetated foreshore, natural levees and constructed wetlands. The results of applying these methods for our case study showed that a hybrid solution that employs both traditional and non-traditional solutions for flood management is optimal. A constructed wetland along a section of the constructed channel for diverting flow into the Nagaa Hammade Canal would decrease the runoff volume and peak time so that the capacity of the Canal is not exceeded in a flood event and purifies the incoming stormwater improving its quality and the health of the ecosystem within the canal. Moreover, our proposed approach was investigated and found to target 10 out of the 17 UN SDGs.

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